The judge put breaks on the reduction of staff by the Trump administration of the government

By Janie Har | Associated Press

San Francisco – The Trump administration must interrupt a large part of its dramatic reduction in the federal workforce, a California judge ordered on Friday.

J. Susan Illston in San Francisco has made the emergency ordinance in legal action tabled last week by unions and cities, one of the multiple legal challenges to the efforts of Republican President Donald Trump to reduce the size of a federal government which he calls inflated and expensive.

“The court maintains that the president must probably request cooperation from the congress to order the modifications he seeks, and therefore issued a temporary prohibition order to suspend large-scale reductions in force in the meantime,” Illston wrote in his order.

The temporary ban order orders numerous federal agencies to stop acting on the executive decree of the president signed in February and a subsequent memo issued by the Government Ministry of efficiency and the staff management office.

The prescription, which expires in 14 days, does not need departments to rehire people. The applicants asked that the date of entry into force of any agency action be postponed and that the departments cease to implement or apply the decree, including taking other measures.

They have limited their request to the departments where dismantling is already underway or ready to be underway, in particular to the American Department of Health and Social Services, which announced in March, it will dismiss 10,000 workers and centralize the divisions.

Illston, who was appointed to the bench by former president Bill Clinton, a democrat, said at a hearing on Friday that the president had the power to ask for changes in the services and agencies of the executive branches created by the Congress.

“But he must do it legal,” she said. “He must do so with the cooperation of the congress, the Constitution is structured in this way.”

Trump has repeatedly said that the voters had given him the mandate to redo the federal government, and he hit the billionaire Elon Musk to carry out the accusation through Doge.

Tens of thousands of federal workers have been dismissed, left their jobs via deferred resignation programs or were put on leave following crisis in Trump government. There is no official figure for job cuts, but at least 75,000 federal employees have taken a deferred resignation, and thousands of probationary workers have already been released.

In his order, Illston has given several examples to show the impact of the reduction in staff. A union which represents federal workers who are looking for health risks facing minors, said that it was ready to lose 221 of the 222 workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bureau; A farmer from the Vermont did not receive a timely inspection on his property to receive aid in the event of a disaster after floods and missed an important plantation window; A reduction in social security workers has led to longer waiting times for beneficiaries.

All the agencies affected were created by the Congress, she noted.

Government lawyers argued on Friday that the executive decree and the note calling for large -scale personnel discounts and reorganization plans provided only general principles that agencies should follow in the exercise of their own decision -making process.

“He expressly invites the comments and proposals for legislative engagement in the context of policies that these agencies wish to implement,” said Eric Hamilton, an assistant assistant assistant about the note. “He exhibits advice.”

But Danielle Leonard, lawyer of the complainants, said that it was clear that the president, Doge and OPM made decisions outside their authority and did not invite the dialogue of the agencies.

“They don’t wait for these planning documents” to go through long processes, she said. “They don’t ask for approval, and they don’t expect it.”

The temporary prohibition order applies to departments, in particular the departments of agriculture, energy, work, interior, state, treasury and veterans.

It also applies to the National Science Foundation, Small Business Association, Social Security Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency.