{"id":2475216,"date":"2025-08-15T14:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-circuit-trump-can-downsize-federal-regulatory-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:00:45","slug":"d-c-circuit-trump-can-downsize-federal-regulatory-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-circuit-trump-can-downsize-federal-regulatory-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Circuit: Trump Can Downsize Federal Regulatory Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fd-c-circuit-trump-can-downsize-federal-regulatory-agency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2475216&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of former President Trump, affirming his authority to downsize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a prominent federal regulatory agency. The 2-1 decision vacated a previous injunction from a lower court that had attempted to block layoffs at the CFPB adn prevent defunding actions by the Office of Management and Budget.The CFPB, established under the Dodd-Frank Act, holds extensive regulatory and enforcement powers over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/companies-are-increasingly-charging-former-employees-for-job-training-after-quitting\/\" title=\"Companies Are Increasingly Charging Former Employees for Job Training After Quitting\">consumer financial products<\/a>. The majority opinion, written by Judge Gregory Katsas (a Trump appointee), emphasized limits on judicial review according to the administrative Procedure Act (APA) and asserted that employment-related claims should follow procedures under the Civil Service Reform Act. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-strikes-down-dem-state-law-that-hamstrung-young-gun-owners\/\" title=\"Federal court invalidates state law restricting young gun owners\">dissenting judge argued<\/a> that the president does not have discretion to eliminate the agency entirely. Following the ruling, plaintiffs sought an emergency review by the full D.C. Circuit court to block the decision from taking effect.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-4686-3758\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:14832835450050406,size:[0, 0],id:\"ld-4686-3758\"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.decide.dev\/_js\/ajs.js\";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,\"script\",\"ld-ajs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:CFPB_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau_entrance_Washington_DC_2025-02-10_11-14-45.jpg\">G. 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Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Trump a major victory on Friday, ruling that he does, in fact, possess the power to downsize a prominent regulatory agency. <\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cadc.41898\/gov.uscourts.cadc.41898.01208766671.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2-1 decision<\/a>, the panel&rsquo;s majority revoked a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/24\/trumps-fight-to-fire-leftist-bureaucrats-is-a-supreme-battle-worth-fighting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">temporary injunction<\/a> issued in March by Obama-appointed District Judge Amy Berman Jackson. That edict attempted to stop the president from making significant layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and prevent Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought from &ldquo;defunding the agency,&rdquo; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-cfpb-vought-dc-court-appeal-2114190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Newsweek<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1153624740\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/government-regulation\/report\/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-limiting-americans-credit-choices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described<\/a> by The Heritage Foundation, the CFPB was created by Congress more than a decade ago &ldquo;under Title X of Dodd&ndash;Frank to &lsquo;regulate the offering and provision of consumer financial products or services under the Federal consumer financial laws.&rsquo;&rdquo; Rather than &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >simply consolidating regulatory authority<\/a>,&rdquo; the think tank noted, &ldquo;Congress granted the new agency unparalleled rulemaking, supervisory, and enforcement powers over virtually every consumer financial product and service.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Writing for the majority, D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas, a Trump appointee, found that in issuing her injunction, Jackson &ldquo;lacked jurisdiction to consider the claims&rdquo; made by plaintiffs that were &ldquo;predicated on loss of employment.&rdquo; These claims, Katsas noted, &ldquo;must proceed through the specialized-review scheme established in the Civil Service Reform Act.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And the other plaintiffs&rsquo; claims target neither final agency action reviewable under the Administrative Procedure Act nor unconstitutional action reviewable in equity. Accordingly, we vacate the preliminary injunction,&rdquo; Katsas wrote. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"n8ASKhlOsi2QzXTfeIrPacuwoB47Lmb63RJgNjUYDxHE1Wqy9Mpk\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#128680;&#128680;&#128680;BREAKING: Another Trump win on appeal with D.C. Circuit vacating preliminary injunction. Order isn&#8217;t loading yet so details to follow. 1\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G1hFYsNCGf\">pic.twitter.com\/G1hFYsNCGf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfMJCleveland\/status\/1956371445061243290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Trump appointee notably <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ProfMJCleveland\/status\/1956375189823840482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discussed<\/a> litigants&rsquo; abuse of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) &mdash; a statute which The Federalist&rsquo;s Margot Cleveland previously noted has often been <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/13\/heres-your-guide-to-the-lawsuits-challenging-trumps-funding-freezes-and-terminations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-upholds-missouris-voter-id-requirements\/\" title=\"Judge Upholds Missouri&#039;s Voter ID Requirements\">left-wing plaintiffs<\/a> in their lawfare against the Trump administration. More specifically, Katsas noted how the APA &ldquo;cabins the timing, focus, and intensiveness of judicial review of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gorsuch-calls-out-chevrons-disparate-impact-on-regular-citizens\/\" title=\"Gorsuch criticizes Chevron&#039;s unequal impact on ordinary people\">federal agency action<\/a>,&rdquo; and requires the &ldquo;plaintiff to target specific agency action that has caused him an injury.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[The APA] requires that action to be final, ripe for review, and discrete. And it does not permit the courts to superintend how an agency carries out its broad statutory responsibilities,&rdquo; he wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Judge Cornelia Pillard, an Obama appointee, dissented from the majority decision. In disagreeing with her colleagues, she wrote, &ldquo;It is emphatically not within the discretion of the President or his appointees to decide that the country would benefit most if there were no Bureau at all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Not long after the panel&rsquo;s ruling, plaintiffs <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/profmjcleveland\/status\/1956410224639692823?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed<\/a> an emergency application with the entire D.C. Circuit (&ldquo;en banc court&rdquo;) seeking to bar the panel&rsquo;s decision from taking effect.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. 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