The White House says it plans to fight a decision by a federal prosecutor ordering the presidency to immediately restore thousands of temporary national workers fired amid President Donald Trump‘s efforts to reduce the government’s labor and budget.
William Alsup, the Senior U. S. District Judge of the Northern District of California, ruled Thursday that the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs has stretch presents to fired staff to return to their previous jobs.
Alsup, a former President Bill Clinton appointee, specifically claimed that Trump’s Office of Personnel Management had reached an “unlawful” decision to proceed with the” sham” layoffs.
” A single prosecutor is attempting to unconstitutionally capture the power of hiring and firing from the Executive Branch”, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. ” The president has the authority to practice the power of the whole executive branch — distinct district court judges never abuse the power of the whole court to block the President’s agenda”.
” If a federal district court judge had except professional rights, they can try and run for President themselves”, she continued. ” The Trump Administration will soon fight back against this absurd and illegal get”.
Alsup’s decision, however, is not the conclusion of this story.
OPM and Trump’s Office of Management and Budget set a Thursday date last quarter for every governmental department and company to send labor reduction plans. Alsup clarified in his decision that the federal government retains the legal authority to initiate routine “reductions in force”.
” The words that I give you today should not be taken that some wild-and-crazy judge in San Francisco said that an administration cannot engage in a reduction in force”, he stated. ” It can be done, if it’s done in accordance with the law”.
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” The Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Government Efficiency, and each agency will work together to review each agency’s respective Reductions in Force plans”, Leavitt said of the RIF deadline early Thursday, claiming that the soon-to-be-enacted firings will” streamline our broken bureaucracy, save taxpayers millions of dollars, and make the government more efficient for all”.
” Once the plans are enacted, in the continued effort of transparency, the Trump Administration will communicate them directly to the American people”, she concluded.
