NPR - The Trump administration is now able to proceed with plans to lay off hundreds of thousands of federal workers after a Supreme Court decision ...The Court lifted a lower court order that blocked Trump’s executive order from February directing large-scale cuts at government agencies. As a result, layoffs can continue while legal challenges are addressed in the lower courts.
This order is a big deal that impacts close to 20 agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Treasury Department, NPR’s Andrea Hsu says. Around 10,000 employees with HHS have already received layoff notices and the only reason they have stayed on payroll was due to the lower court order. This will not impact the entire federal government. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week it wouldn’t need to carry out the large-scale layoffs because it is already on pace to reduce its staff by some 30,000 employees through other means. Hsu says it is known that a lot of people left the VA out of fear that they would be fired.
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