Judge halts Trump administration from firing federal workers during shutdown

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U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled that federal agencies can’t implement layoffs during the government shutdown.

A union representing federal workers filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration arguing that the firings are not justified.

Since the government shutdown began in early October, thousands of federal workers received layoff notices.

A federal judge has indefinitely stopped the Trump administration from firing federal workers amid the ongoing government shutdown.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston granted a preliminary injunction that banned the layoffs while a lawsuit filed by the federal employee unions challenging the layoffs is pending.

During a Tuesday hearing in San Francisco, Illston banned almost 40 federal agencies from conducting layoffs.

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