The bureau sent reduction-in-force notices to roughly 90% of its staff Thursday, with plans to cut off terminated employees’ access to CFPB systems at 6 p.m. Friday. A judge intervened.

A federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ruled that the agency can’t go forward immediately with plans to mass fire hundreds of employees.

President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire nearly everyone at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been paused by a federal judge, who says she's “deeply concerned” about the plan

A judge froze the Trump administration’s plan to fire a majority of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson stopped the administration’s effort, the latest development in a legal seesaw battle that has seen plans to dismantle or cut back the CFPB started and stopped several times.

A US federal judge, Amy Berman Jackson on Friday suspended the mass firings carried out on Thursday afternoon at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB. Berman Jackson said she was deeply concerned the US President Donald Trump’s administration had violated court orders setting conditions on dismissals.