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Breaking down the suit implicit HHS cuts
A justice temporarily barred the Trump medication from carrying retired sweeping cuts and layoffs astatine implicit a twelve authorities agencies precocious Friday, portion of a massive national cost-cutting thrust led by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled the plaintiffs — a radical of federal worker unions — are apt to amusement that the Trump administration's attempts to reorganize and downsize the national authorities transcend its ineligible authority. Illston wrote that President Trump "likely indispensable petition Congressional practice to bid the changes helium seeks."
Illston's temporarily restraining bid blocks a litany of national agencies from taking immoderate further steps to transportation retired a February enforcement order telling agencies to gully up plans for large-scale occupation cuts. The affected agencies — covering a wide swath of the authorities — can't proceed laying disconnected unit oregon enactment workers connected administrative permission successful bid to comply with Mr. Trump's order. The bid besides blocks "any further orders by DOGE to agencies to chopped programs oregon staff" successful accordance with the enforcement order.
The bid volition stay successful effect for astatine slightest 14 days portion the justice considers the case.
It applies to DOGE and 20 national agencies, including the Office of Management and Budget, the Social Security Administration and the departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, Veterans Affairs and more.
CBS News has reached retired to the White House for comment.
Joe Walsh is simply a elder exertion for integer authorities astatine CBS News. Joe antecedently covered breaking quality for Forbes and section quality successful Boston.
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