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Civil Service / Firings Partial Announced
Court forces reinstatement of CFPB staff after wind-down attempt
~1,700 employees protected from RIF
Original action
Acting director Russell Vought issued a stop-work order and, with DOGE, planned to fire nearly all of the CFPB's ~1,700 employees and wind down the agency.
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Reversal
Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the CFPB to reinstate fired probationary and term employees, preserve records, and rescind the stop-work order.
- Mechanism: court-forced
Notes
Court-ordered reinstatement; the broader litigation over the agency's future continued.