( January 5, 2026, 2:02 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in the District of Columbia clarified a March 2025 preliminary injunction that halted the termination of more than 1,400 workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), writing that the federal government parties’ notice to the court that “the Federal Reserve ‘currently lacks combined earnings from which the CFPB can draw’” is a “transparent attempt to starve the [CFPB] of funding and yet another attempt to achieve the very end the Court’s injunction was put in place to prevent.”...