Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees got at least a two-week reprieve from an expected culling of the workforce after their union and the agency agreed to let a federal judge rule on the merits of the planned staff cuts and other efforts to shutter the watchdog.
The National Treasury Employees Union said in a Thursday court filing that it anticipated acting Director Russell Vought would fire up to 95% percent of its workforce as early as Friday. A subsequent filing from Erie Meyer, the agency’s former chief technologist and adviser to the director, claimed that Vought planned to delete the ...