San Francisco district judge says Congress did not authorize large-scale staffing cuts and restructuring of agencies
Donald Trump’s administration must temporarily halt its sweeping government overhaul because Congress did not authorize it to carry out large-scale staffing cuts and the restructuring of agencies, a federal judge in California said on Friday.
US district judge Susan Illston in San Francisco sided with a group of unions, non-profits and local governments in blocking large-scale mass layoffs known as “reductions in force” for 14 days.
“As history demonstrates, the president may broadly restructure federal agencies only when authorized by Congress,” Illston said.
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