A federal judge said that the president’s efforts to remove Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, were unlawful. The agency protects whistle-blowers.

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.

A federal judge has ruled that the head of a federal watchdog agency must remain in his job, saying President Donald Trump’s bid to remove the special counsel was unlawful.

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