The financial watchdog agency was formed after the 2008 crisis. The Trump administration has told staffers not to take any actions — or even come into the office.

Key Takeaways The acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau asked employees to stop much of their work, closed the headquarters, and said he would refuse the agency's funding.Analysts said that the White House cannot close the agency without Congress' consent but could hold the CFPB back from doing much of its work.

A union representing thousands of federal employees filed two lawsuits against Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought for his shuttering of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Vought is the acting director of the CFPB.

A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to fully comply with a previous order lifting its broad freeze on federal spending.

The Trump administration has violated a court order by refusing to reverse a freeze of billions in government funds, a judge ruled Monday. The ruling was the latest challenge to sweeping White House plans to cut costs and remake the US government.

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Monday said that the Trump administration had violated his order halting a sweeping federal funding freeze and ordered the government to “immediately restore frozen funding.