A top Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official will be forced to testify about the Trump administration’s plans for the agency and whether it is properly handling consumer complaints and other congressionally mandated tasks.

The agency's work stoppage also calls into question the fate of potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of separate payouts from financial services companies like Cash App par

A judge directed pointed questions on Monday at the Trump administration about whether its decision to halt most activity within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violated the law. Judge Amy Berman Jackson expressed concern that acting Director Russ Vought’s orders to stop activity at the CFPB,