RIFs are pretty detailed, and it is entirely possible that many agencies failed to follow the steps or meet the criteria. Question is whether courts call them on their BS or say that the Trump administration has discretion over this (in which case, why have the rules at all?)
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T21:23:05.204Z
This tweet appeared under this Techmeme headline:Kyle Cheney / @kyledcheney:Judge Amy Berman Jackson has suspended efforts to implement large-scale terminations at CFPB until she rules on whether it's a violation of her injunction against dismantling the agency. [image]
— Techmeme X Chatter (@xchatter.techmeme.com) 2025-04-18T21:23:15.987Z
Judge Blocks DOGE From Laying Off 90 Percent of CFPB http://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-t…
— WORKER19 (@blogwood.com) 2025-04-18T21:22:58.244Z
NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. http://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h…
— makena kelly (@makenakelly.bsky.social) 2025-04-17T21:29:55.813Z
Late night Prospect: The CFPB mass firing leaves the agency without sufficient staff to fulfill its statutory goals or even priorities laid out by the agency’s acting chief legal officer a day earlier. It also puts some markets CFPB oversees at risk of malfunctioning.prospect.org/justice/cfpb…
— David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social) 2025-04-18T06:05:55.598Z
Sad! 