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  1. December 17, 2025

    Trump Admin Asks Fed Whether It's Back In The Black

    The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday asked the Federal Reserve to confirm whether it has returned to profitability, a potential opening for the Trump administration to draw new funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after insisting none is available.

  2. December 17, 2025

    DC Circ. Grants En Banc Hearing On CFPB Layoff Plan

    Additional D.C. Circuit judges will get to weigh in on the Trump administration's bid to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through mass layoffs, after the appeals court granted the agency's employees' union an en banc rehearing on a lower court's injunction stopping the firings.

  3. December 09, 2025

    Trump's CFPB Says It Can't Be Forced To Take Fed Money

    The Trump administration said Monday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is not obligated to take funding from the Federal Reserve, and a D.C. federal judge can't order it to do so, pushing back against a request from the labor union challenging the agency's dismantling.

  4. December 05, 2025

    Fed Can Fund CFPB Under Trump Admin's Terms, Court Told

    A group of former Federal Reserve officials told a Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday that the Trump administration is wrong to claim the central bank both needs and lacks profits right now to keep the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau up and running.

  5. November 24, 2025

    CFPB Union Asks Court To Neutralize Fed Funding Block

    The federal labor union suing over the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to rule that the Trump administration may not shut down the agency simply by refusing to replenish its Federal Reserve funding.

  6. November 12, 2025

    CFPB Forges Ahead On Rules As Funding Hangs In Doubt

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is rolling out plans to narrow how it defines and watches out for lending discrimination, even as the Trump administration casts fresh doubt on any plans to fund the agency once its reserves dry up.  

  7. July 31, 2025

    3 DOJ Attys Face Bar Complaints Over CFPB Representation

    A legal watchdog group Thursday lodged bar complaints against a trio of U.S. Department of Justice lawyers, accusing them of making misleading and false statements in court filings while defending the Trump administration in litigation over its attempt to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

  8. May 12, 2025

    DC Circ. Has 'Duty To Intervene' To Protect CFPB, Union Says

    A union representing employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged the D.C. Circuit to keep in place a lower court injunction barring the agency from stopping work and firing staff, asserting ahead of oral arguments this week that the Trump administration is trying to "place the executive branch above the law."

  9. April 28, 2025

    DC Circ. Restores Ban On CFPB Mass Layoffs Amid Appeal

    A D.C. Circuit panel said Monday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must refrain for now from mass employee firings, backtracking from a prior decision that the Trump administration had used to attempt a now-suspended layoff of nearly all the agency's staff.

  10. April 21, 2025

    CFPB Needs Only 200 Workers, Trump Admin Tells DC Circ.

    The Trump administration has told the D.C. Circuit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau only needs a staff of 200 to fulfill its duties, as the government seeks to resume layoffs at the agency after a federal judge halted the terminations for a second time.