Federal judges in California and Maryland order the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary federal workers, who were fired during mass layoffs at 19 agencies.
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00:00Federal judges in California and Maryland order the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired during mass layoffs at 19 agencies.
00:11U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Baltimore agrees with 20 Democratic-led states, ruling that 18 agencies violated regulations by firing probationary employees.
00:22The restraining order applies to agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which have been targeted for deregulation and cost-cutting by the Trump administration.
00:36Other agencies include the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs.
00:50Government agencies now face a Thursday deadline to submit plans for a second round of layoffs and budget cuts.
00:56These rulings are a major setback for Trump and top adviser-billionaire Elon Musk's plan to reduce the federal bureaucracy.
01:04Trump and Musk, the architect of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, are pushing to reduce the federal workforce, which had about 2.3 million workers when Trump took office in January.