Independent, UK - Over the weekend, ABC News and USA Today reported the Trump administration eliminated almost the entire staff at the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. The move comes as the Trump administration began massive reductions in force amid the ongoing government shutdown as a means to convince Democrats to vote for a stopgap spending bill.
The office is specifically responsible for administering about $15.1 billion worth of money to ensure that students with disabilities receive a “free appropriate public education” as codified under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. On Wednesday, a federal judge in California temporarily halted the layoffs.
NBC News - A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from laying off federal workers during the government shutdown, which has now stretched to two weeks.
Two unions sued the Trump administration last month ahead of the shutdown after the White House signaled a plan to lay people off through "reductions in force" (RIFs) at federal agencies.
"The activities that are being undertaken here are contrary to the laws," U.S. District Judge Susan Yvonne Illston said. "You can’t do this in a nation of laws."
Illston added that the Trump administration had "taken advantage of the lapse in government spending and government functioning to assume that all bets are off, the laws don’t apply to them anymore, and they can impose the structures that they like on the government situation that they don’t like." Read the full story.
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