"will demonstrate ultimately that what's being done here is both illegal and is in excess of authority and is arbitrary and capricious,"
"The evidence suggests that the Office of Management and Budget, OMB, and the Office of Personnel Management, OPM, have taken advantage of the lapse in government spending and government functioning to assume that all bets are off, that the laws don't apply to them anymore,"
"What it is is a situation where things are being done before they are being thought through. It's very much ready, fire, aim on most of these programs,"
"And it has a human cost, which is really why we're here today. It's a human cost that cannot be tolerated."
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston issued a temporary restraining order blocking the administration from firing thousands of federal employees during the federal shutdown. The order followed a request from federal employee unions in California. Illston concluded the unions are likely to show that the reduction-in-force orders violate law, exceed authority, and are arbitrary and capricious. Illston criticized the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management for providing unclear, changing estimates of job cuts and for failing to articulate a lawful justification. The administration acknowledged dismissing about 4,000 workers and signaled more cuts could come. Illston characterized the agencies' actions as treating the funding lapse as a license to ignore legal constraints and emphasized the human cost of rapid, poorly planned reductions.
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