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Judge Temporarily Halts Trump’s Massive Downsizing of Federal Workforce

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A judge has blocked the Trump administration’s ability to mass-fire federal employees—for the moment.

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A federal judge in California has temporarily blocked any further mass layoffs of federal employees, thwarting President Donald Trump‘s efforts to reshape the federal government in his own image… for now.

San Francisco-based Judge Susan Illston issued

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