Consumer Financial Protection Bureau entrance, Washington, DC (Credit: G. Edward Johnson)The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday blocked the Trump administration from immediately moving forward with its plan to dramatically slash the bloated workforce at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by roughly two-thirds.This is the latest chapter in the ongoing war between President Trump’s mandate to drain the swamp and the entrenched bureaucracy that refuses to die.The D.C. Circuit granted the administration’s motion to send the case back to the district court for further review of an earlier injunction, but they flat-out refused to lift the stay preventing the workforce reductions from taking effect now.They also rejected any request to impose a tight deadline on the lower court.In short: the judges hit the brakes on the very reforms American voters demanded.The CFPB was rammed through as part of the Dodd-Frank Act, a classic piece of post-2008 crisis overreach pushed by Democrats and Elizabeth Warren.It was deliberately designed to operate outside normal congressional oversight, funded through the Federal Reserve instead of appropriations.When President Trump took office for his second term, the agency had ballooned to well over 1,700 employees.President Trump and his allies have repeatedly pushed for major reforms, arguing the bureau has become a weaponized regulator that burdens businesses and exceeds its statutory authority.The administration’s revised plan, submitted in late March, aimed to bring that number way down through a Reduction in Force — cutting roughly two-thirds of the workforce, with especially deep cuts to the supervision and enforcement divisions that have long been accused of overreach.Earlier attempts to cut even deeper (up to 90%) ran into the same wall of lawsuits from federal employee unions and left-wing advocacy groups. The courts have repeatedly stepped in to protect the gravy train.The Hill reported:A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from immediately cutting the workforce at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the administration’s motion to return the case to the District Court.However, it rejected the administration’s request to resume staff cuts or impose a deadline on the district judge. The administration argued the appeals court should send the case back to the lower court with a 45-day deadline to reassess an injunction the latter imposed last year — which temporarily halted the mass layoffs.The post D.C. Circuit Delivers Another Blow To Trump’s Drain The Swamp Mission: Activist Judges Block Immediate Plan To Slash CFPB Workforce By Two-Thirds appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.