Chicago – March 29, 2025
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and ordered that all terminated employees be reinstated.
The temporary injunction from Judge Amy Berman Jackson at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., also prevents the administration from firing any more CFPB workers or from deleting any of the agency’s data or records, as part of a sweeping ruling to protect the agency.
“There is a substantial risk that the defendants will complete the destruction of the agency completely in violation of law well before the Court can rule on the merits, and it will be impossible to rebuild,” Berman Jackson wrote in her order.
The order comes as a case proceeds in a lawsuit filed by the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents employees of the CFPB after the Trump administration effectively shuttered the agency last month.
The administration along with Elon Musk’s team — the Department of Government Efficiency — had closed the CFPB’s headquarters, ordered employees to cease most work and terminated over 100 probationary and term employees.
Judge Berman Jackson has yet to issue a final order on the case.
