They're out of cash, moar importantly.
Coincidence, I'm sure….
The Yorkshire Lass
@real_shirelass
I think DOGE is happening here in the UK and Labour are taking the credit….Civil service workers have had their credit cards frozen as it’s been revealed millions of pounds are being spent on things like luxury shoes and concert tickets etc….Sounds like exactly what Trump and Elon are doing over in the US with freezing funding across different departments.
https://twitter.com/real_shirelass/status/1901932714426605599
He do make demands like he's getting advised by someone who's recently lost their security clearances, don't he?
Trump administration reinstating 24,500 fired workers after court order
Mar 18th
By Daniel Wiessner
(Reuters) - The Trump administration in court filings has for the first time acknowledged that it fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers, and said agencies were working to bring all of them back after a judge ruled that their terminations were likely illegal.
The filings made in Baltimore, Maryland, federal court late Monday include statements from officials at 18 agencies, all of whom said the reinstated probationary workers were being placed on administrative leave at least temporarily.
The mass firings, part of President Donald Trump's broader purge of the federal workforce, were widely reported, but the court filings are the first full accounting of the terminations by the administration.
Most of the agencies said they had fired a few hundred workers. The Treasury Department terminated about 7,600 people, the Department of Agriculture about 5,700 and the Department of Health and Human Services more than 3,200, according to the filings.
U.S. District Judge James Bredar on March 13 said the mass firings of probationary workers that began last month violated regulations governing the mass layoffs of federal employees, and ordered them to be reinstated pending further litigation.
Probationary workers typically have less than one year of service in their current roles, though some are longtime federal employees.
Bredar's ruling came in a lawsuit by 19 Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C., who said the mass firings would trigger a spike in unemployment claims and greater demand for social services provided by states.
The office of Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, which is spearheading the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
The Trump administration has appealed Bredar's decision and on Monday asked a Richmond, Virginia-based appeals court to pause the ruling pending the outcome of the case.
Hours before Bredar issued his ruling, a federal judge in San Francisco had ordered that probationary workers be reinstated at six agencies, including five also covered by Bredar's order and the U.S. Department of Defense. The administration has also appealed that decision.
In the filings late Monday, agency officials said they had either reinstated all of the fired employees or were working to do so, but warned that bringing back large numbers of workers had imposed significant burdens and caused confusion and turmoil.
The officials also noted that an appeals court ruling reversing Bredar's order would allow agencies to again fire the workers, subjecting them to multiple changes in their employment status in a matter of weeks.
"The tremendous uncertainty associated with this confusion and these administrative burdens impede supervisors from appropriately managing their workforce," Mark Green, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of the Interior, wrote in one of the filings. "Work schedules and assignments are effectively being tied to hearing and briefing schedules set by the courts."
Bredar has scheduled a hearing for March 26 on whether to keep his ruling in place pending the outcome of the lawsuit, which could take months or longer to resolve.
https://m.piqsuite.com/reuters/trump-administration-reinstating-24500-fired-workers-after-court-order-2025-03-18-13-46-12
Any Article II issues here? Nah, just moar Supreme Judiciary.
Very prudent, IMO, and it's a bit of a rope-a-dope when they get higher up the food chain, as Article II will weigh extra heavy as clue bat. There IS a strategery here.Arrogant judiciary will miss it, because tantrums. (I suspect comms may get exposed as well, but I can only be so hopeful.)
He left out a word. "Fully".
What I also think I'm seeing is a strategery of worse and worse choices being left for the Black Hats….
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Squeakybein ignored agin….
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Taibbi on related Weissmann corruption:: https://www.racket.news/p/exclusive-andrew-weissmann-in-crosshairs
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney
NEW: Donald Trump's call to impeach Chief Judge Boasberg for a ruling he disagrees with is an escalation of his administration's increasingly ominous battle with the judiciary.
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@meganmesserly
https://politico.com/news/2025/03/18/trump-impeachment-judge-deportations-00235173
To Trump, Boasberg isn't just the guy who is handling the Alien Enemies Act case. The Obama-appointed judge —known as a pretty measured and congenial guy — also presided over key aspects of the grand jury that indicted Trump over his 2020 election scheme.
https://politico.com/news/2025/03/18/trump-impeachment-judge-deportations-00235173
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1901999693774622879
Good thing there's nothing warm underneath Iceland or it would all meltaway….