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October 16, 2025

Judge Puts Temporary Hold on Trump's Mass Firing of Federal Workers During Government Shutdown
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The federal government shutdown has entered its 16th day. On Wednesday,
a federal judge temporarily halted the Trump administration from laying
off 4,000 government workers across eight agencies, siding with unions.
In her ruling, Judge Susan Illston wrote that the White House budget
office and Office of Personnel Management have "taken advantage of the
lapse in government spending and government functioning to assume that
all bets are off, that the laws don't apply to them anymore and they can
impose the structures that they like." The ruling came as the Senate
failed to pass a funding bill for the ninth time on Wednesday.


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