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An appeals court decision has delivered to President Donald Trump permission to move forward with layoffs at Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s pet bureaucracy, the Consumer Financial Protection Board.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, through a three-judge panel, overturned a lower court’s block of Trump’s plan to dismantle the agency, and mass layoffs are expected to resume.
The decision was based on the fact the employee unions and groups that use the CFPB services don’t have a right to bring their challenge in federal court. Instead, it is the .Merit Systems Protection Board that should be hearing the concerns.
“If the plaintiffs’ theory were viable, it would become the task of the judiciary, rather than the Executive Branch, to determine what resources an agency needs to perform its broad statutory functions,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas in the majority opinion, which was joined by U.S. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao.
The decision lifts a block that for months has prevented the planned layoffs affecting about 80% of its force.
The Hill reported Cornelia Pillard was the lone dissent.
The report explained how the bureaucracy was a target of the Department of Government Efficiency when it was being led by former White House aide Elon Musk.
It was created in 2008 as a result of that year’s financial crisis and Trump tapped Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to be acting director, where he immediately started the dismantling.
“The CFPB is now free to right-size itself in accordance with the law to best serve the American people,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said of the ruling.
It had been Amy Berman, a judge whose agenda often is in conflict with the president, who originally had demanded that the firings be halted, and fired workers be reinstated. She also took over the agency to the extent that she was deciding what contracts would be pursued.
Employee unions had gone to court to fight the president’s agenda to save American taxpayers money.
Trump’s plan involves removing about 1,400 staffers from the agency, leaving 200 behind.
Katsas said, “We hold that the district court lacked jurisdiction to consider the claims predicated on loss of employment, which must proceed through the specialized-review scheme established in the Civil Service Reform Act.”
The CFPB is an independent agency uniquely funded by transfers of cash from the Federal Reserve System.
It has worked to regulate consumer financial products and services.
However, critics have charged that it oversteps its authority.
Trump’s lawyers have explained 200 staff members are all that are needed for the agency to handle its duties.
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