The Trump administration has been granted permission by the Appeals court to resume the dismantling of the CFPB. Enilsa Brown 27

A federal appeals court panel has overturned a judge’s block on the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), allowing mass layoffs to resume. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit panel voted 2-1 that employee unions and groups that use CFPB services have no right to bring their challenge in federal court. The decision lifts a block that has prevented the CFPB from conducting planned layoffs affecting at least 80 percent of the bureau’s remaining workforce and terminating contracts. The CFPB became an early target of former White House aide Elon Musk as the Department of Government Efficiency sought to reshape the federal bureaucracy, agency by agency. In March, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson barred the administration from moving forward and required that fired employees be reinstated. The ruling came in response to a lawsuit brought by two unions representing CFPB employees, the National Treasury Employees Union and the CFPB Employee Association, along with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Consumer Law Center, and the Virginia Poverty Law Center, which use CFPB’s services.

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