"Ever since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump has taken a sledgehammer to the federal workforce, attempting to purge tens of thousands of civil servants and shutter entire agencies. The Supreme Court has largely rubber-stamped these mass layoffs, even when they frustrated congressional commands expressly intended to direct, structure, and constrain the executive branch. Last month, however, Congress struck back in a little-noticed move that shifted power away from the Trump administration by outlawing further illegal firings and reversing those already underway."
"Recall that during the shutdown, the president moved forward with mass layoffs across a bunch of federal agencies. They were euphemistically called "reductions in force." People lost their jobs, their paychecks, their housing, even overseas postings. It was a disaster. And Trump claimed that the shutdown gave him broader leeway to purge the civil and foreign service and also to use those layoffs to inflict pain on"
President Donald Trump initiated widespread layoffs across federal agencies after returning to the White House and during a shutdown, removing tens of thousands of civil servants and closing agencies. The Supreme Court largely approved those actions, even when they conflicted with congressional directives. Congress passed a statute criminalizing further illegal firings and reversing ongoing ones, thereby limiting executive authority. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston issued an injunction enforcing the new law and rejecting the administration's attempt to defy it. The interventions stopped "reductions in force" that cost employees jobs, paychecks, housing, and overseas postings and strengthened congressional control over the executive.
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