D.C. Circuit Delivers Another Blow To Trump’s Drain The Swamp Mission: Activist Judges Block Immediate Plan To Slash CFPB Workforce By Two-Thirds
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau entrance, Washington, DC (Credit: G. Edward Johnson) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday blocked the Trump administration from immediately moving forward with its plan to dramatically slash the bloated workforce at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by roughly two-thirds. This is the latest chapter in the ongoing war between President Trump’s mandate to