In a significant rebuke to the Trump administration, a federal judge ruled Thursday that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had no legal authority to order agencies to fire probationary employees, declaring its directives “illegal” and ordering them to be rescinded. Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California …
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The Trump administration has directed federal agencies to submit large-scale workforce reduction plans as part of an initiative to cut costs and streamline government operations. A memo issued by Budget Director Russell Vought and Acting Office of Personnel Management Director Charles Ezell instructs agency heads to deliver their first phase …
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The Trump administration Friday continued its mass firing of thousands of probationary federal employees in an attempt to remove workers recently hired under the Biden administration and to cull the federal workforce. President Donald Trump wants to shrink the federal government’s 2.4 million-person workforce, and the targeting of roughly 220,000 probationary employees …
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