A federal appeals court panel on Monday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), partially lifting a previous order construed as greenlighting the major cuts.

The panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit revoked its order allowing the administration to conduct reductions in force of employees if a “particularized assessment” determined their roles were unnecessary for the agency to perform its statutorily required duties.

The Trump administration took that previous order to mean it could move to lay off roughly 90 percent of CFPB’s staff, but a

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