The judge Amy Berman Jackson has previously stopped the government's plans to cut down so much on the agency that it in practice no longer can function.
On Friday, she says it is "deeply worrying" that the government has not obeyed her decision and that she now prohibits further savings and staff-reducing measures at CFPB. She also prohibits the agency's managers from blocking employees' access to internal data systems.
The government announced in February that it wants to lay off 1,500 of CFPB's 1,700 employees.
CFPB was taken over by Trump's finance minister Scott Bessent in early February, after its chief was fired. In an internal email, he then ordered the employees to cease most of the work, including that no further regulations would be issued.
