"Now 15 days into the current federal government shutdown, President Trump has been very aggressive about using the shutdown as a pretext to fire thousands of federal employees at 30 different US government agencies. And they feel they're just getting started, as Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought said Wednesday morning that the administration hopes to fire as many as 10,000 employees."
"The Chronicle reports that San Francisco's US District Judge Susan Illston just halted the firings of government employees by issuing a restraining order, ruling in a lawsuit brought by federal employee unions. Illston pointed out in her ruling that the employees' firings came for reasons unrelated to their job performance. And in a pretty pointed political remark, her ruling also added that The politics that infuses what's going on is being Trumped out loud."
"These job positions were created by appropriations from the US Congress, so Illston argued that the president does not have the authority to eliminate them. "Overturning agency mandates Congress has put in place they can't do that," Illston wrote, according to NPR. Illston's ruling effectively reverses any firings that have been ordered since October 10, and prohibits any more for the duration of her temporary restraining order."
San Francisco US District Judge Susan Illston issued a temporary restraining order halting planned firings of federal employees tied to the government shutdown. The order reverses firings ordered since October 10 and bars additional dismissals while the order remains in effect. Illston found many terminations were unrelated to job performance and emphasized that the affected positions were created by congressional appropriations, limiting presidential authority to eliminate them. The injunction followed lawsuits filed by AFGE and AFSCME. The administration had targeted workers across roughly 30 agencies and OMB indicated a plan to remove up to 10,000 employees.
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