Judge halts mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from firing hundreds of employees in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. U-S District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she is “deeply concerned” that administration officials aren’t complying with her earlier order that maintains the bureau’s existence until she rules on the merits of a lawsuit seeking to preserve it. A hearing is set for the end of April. Roughly 15-hundred employees are slated to be cut, leaving around 200 people. Many conservatives and businesses have criticized the bureau’s oversight and investigations.