CFPB Says Judge Can’t Force It to Seek More Federal Reserve Cash

An existing order blocking acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought from dismantling the agency can’t be used to force him to seek more money to keep it alive, the Trump administration said.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson doesn’t have the power to order Vought to seek additional funding from the Federal Reserve under her March preliminary injunction, according to a Monday brief from the administration filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

The National Treasury Employees Union wants Jackson to force Vought’s hand despite a November opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel ...