A U.S. judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from pursuing efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, marking another legal setback in the White House's efforts to remake the federal government virtually overnight.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson granted requests by lawyers representing a workers union and other consumer advocates, who had sued the Trump administration to reverse the agency's sudden shutdown last month, which had seen mass dismissals, contract terminations, office closures and an agency-wide work stoppage.
"The Court cannot look away or the CFPB will be dissolved and dismantled completely," Berman Jackson wrote.
Representatives for the CFPB and the National Treasury Employees Union, which had filed the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
