"Does not have any authority whatsoever": Judge rules Trump admin's mass firings likely illegal
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"Does not have any authority whatsoever": Judge rules Trump admin's mass firings likely illegal

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A federal judge weighed in on the Trump administration’s mass firings of probationary employees across the federal government, ruling on Thursday that the actions to let go of thousands of federal workers were likely illegal. U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted temporary relief to a group of labor organizations representing federal workers, ordering the Office of Personnel Management to inform agencies that it lacks the authority to fire probationary employees. OPM ordered federal agencies to axe probationary workers earlier this month, as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk derided the size of the national bureaucracy. Many of the roughly 200,000 probationary workers across the government were let go via a template email from OPM based on “performance.” The layoffs targeted workers inside the Department of Defense, the National Parks Service, the National Weather Service and other agencies.

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