The judge stopped ending nearly 1500 employees from the Consumer Protection Office (CFPB) while considering whether the Trump administration violates the court order to avoid the demobilization of collective workers. As CNN reportsJudge Amy Berman Jackson said that the collective reduction in the force “will not happen” at the present time, and held a hearing on April 28.
The judgment should be temporarily prevented from CFPB from getting rid of it, a step by CFPB Russell Vogue. He announced to employees yesterday. Documents It was presented in court It indicates that the discounts were supposed to give up 1,483 of the agency’s 1,690 employees, which greatly reduces the number of employees in many departments, including response teams for consumers and data protection. A statement was accompanied by the CFPB mission, away from the investigation of digital payment platforms, medical debts, and many other areas.
The administration has sought to eliminate high -ranking agency officials responsible for maintaining the privacy and security of sensitive information that is collected over the years. A lawyer for the National Treasury Syndicate (NTEU), which represents CFPB, said in an advertisement that I swear to have learned “almost every person” in the privacy of the agency, security and cybersecurity will be eliminated.
NTEU claimed that this violated the Mars Court order Trump administration banned From implementing a previous attempt by the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE) to dismantle the agency. Judge Berman Jackson’s decision that the prohibited lawsuit granted unless it resulted from a “specific evaluation” of employee roles, which NTEU says it is unlikely to happen here. Berman Jackson agreed that she “has concerns about whether the agency is in compliance with this matter, and the administration ordered the delivery of documents about its actions to the union with the progress of the case.
Erie Mayer, the former chief technician in CFPB freedom The demobilization of workers threatens the basic protection of the Americans and their privacy. “With the shooting of every person responsible for protecting the data owned by the office except for one person in the field of cybersecurity, he is officially open to consumers and I am very concerned about how to target weak people,” Mayer says.
