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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.

Added 2026-06-18 · Updated 2026-06-18