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A federal judge on Thursday said the Trump Administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) illegally fired thousands of probationary employees.
US District Judge William Alsup, a Clinton appointee, did not reinstate the fired federal workers because he said he lacked the authority to do so.
Politico’s legal correspondent Josh Gerstein reported that Judge Alsup blasted the Trump Administration for ‘false claims of poor performance used to ax some workers.’
CAUTION: Some other reports out there suggesting Judge William Alsup (Clinton/NDCA) reversed firings or halted them, but he did not do that. At least not today. He did rebuke government for “lies”–false claims of poor performance used to axe some workers.
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) February 28, 2025
According to the latest data from the Office of Personnel Management, there were approximately 220,000 federal workers who had not yet completed their probationary period as of March 2024.
It is unclear how many probationary employees Trump has already fired, but there are potentially 200,000+ federal employees across government agencies.
Terminations occurred in various…
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