A federal judge denied a request from the city of Baltimore to put a temporary stop on the Trump administration’s efforts to send the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s reserve funds back to the Federal Reserve or the Treasury Department.

A federal judge in Baltimore on Friday rejected the city's effort to temporarily block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from emptying its reserves and returning the money to the U.S. Federal Reserve or Department of the Treasury.

A federal judge on Friday handed the Trump administration a win by declining to temporarily block its bid to strip the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) of its reserve funds, after Baltimore sued over an apparent effort to defund the agency.

A federal judge in Maryland ruled against the City of Baltimore's attempt to block cuts to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau program funding on procedural grounds.