A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's offer to federal employees to resign now in exchange for pay and benefits through September can go forward.
Dozens of employees at the bureau were fired by email on Tuesday night amid a stop-work order and closure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's headquarters.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that judges blocking Trump administration actions were causing a constitutional crisis.
Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was one of those released from a Belarusian prison after more than three years. The released American has not been named publicly.
After Trump put out an executive order targeting gender identity, the public lost access to many Census Bureau data tables and research reports for days, raising concerns about the data's integrity.