A federal appeals court panel lifted a lower court’s order Friday that blocked the Trump administration ‘s efforts to fire most employees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau .

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted 2-1 to vacate a preliminary injunction by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, which prevented mass layoffs aimed at restructuring the watchdog agency for consumer finance. Judge Gregory Katsas, an appointee of President Donald Trump, wrote the majority opinion for the panel, arguing the unions and other groups that sued to block the plans to dismantle the agency lacked jurisdiction to do so.

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