A judge ordered the United States government on Thursday, February 27, to cancel the massive layoffs that are part of the Donald Trump and Elon Musk plan aimed at reducing the workforce of the federal state, American media reported. His decision orders the management and budget office (OMB) to withdraw the directives sent to a number of federal agencies, which led to the dismissal of thousands of employees. The omb “does not have the power […] To hire and dismiss employees from another agency “, this power returning” to the agencies themselves “, said Federal Judge William Alsup, during a hearing in San Francisco, according to the Washington Post.
This decision is a new judicial setback for Donald Trump, who has multiplied the actions contested before the courts since his return to power in January. His desire to suspend the admissions of refugees to the United States was thus blocked on Tuesday, and his attempt to call into question the law of the soil was also suspended indefinitely. The layoffs of federal officials during the trial period ordered by the republican billionaire were challenged by unions and various associations, which believe that these directives are illegal.
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“One of the most massive employment in the country’s history”
The latter have affected tens of thousands of people, because even after a long career in the state service, an official who has occupied a new position for a year or two is considered to be during the trial period. The OMB “suddenly perceived one of the most massive employment fraud in the history of this country,” said associations in their complaint, quoted by the Washington Post.
The White House asked all the federal agencies on Wednesday to prepare for massive layoffs of civil servants by “eliminating the positions that are not necessary”. The director of the OMB Russell Vought invited them to set up a starting window, not to replace the scheduled departures and to separate from the employees considered “insufficiently efficient”.
Latest victim to date from these draconian workforce discounts: the national ocean and atmospheric administration (NOAA). Hundreds of scientists and experts have been dismissed from this American agency responsible for weather forecasts, climate analysis and ocean conservation, an elected democrat said on Thursday. Before the election of Donald Trump, conservative ideologists behind the “2025 project” had called for his dismantling, accusing him of being one of the main engines of “the climate alarmism industry”.