Washington (AP) – The administration of President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow him to regain his reduction in the workforce of the federal workforce, while a trial brought by unions and the cities of work.
The Ministry of Justice challenges an order made last week by a federal judge in San Francisco who temporarily interrupted Trump’s efforts to reduce a federal government which he calls inflated and expensive.
The temporary prohibition order of the American district judge Susan Illston wondered if Trump’s republican administration was acting legally in an attempt to reduce the federal workforce.
Illston, appointed by Democratic President, Bill Clinton, ordered many federal agencies to stop acting on Trump’s decree in the death of Trump’s workforce in February and a subsequent service note published by the Ministry of Government Effectiveness and the Staff Management Office.
The Attorney General D. John Sauer asked the court to quickly suspend the decision, telling the judges that they had exceeded his authority.
The order of Illston expires next week, unless extended.
The case is the last in a series of emergency calls that the Trump administration has launched to the Supreme Court, including some linked to layoffs. The administration has made an emergency call separately to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which has not yet acted.
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 mining workers, said that it was ready to lose 221 of the 222 workers from the Pittsburgh office; 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.
Among the agencies affected by the temporary prohibition order are 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.
The applicants include the cities of San Francisco, Chicago and Baltimore; the American Federation of employees of the government of the labor group; And the alliance of non -profit groups for retired Americans, the Center for Rights and Coalition of Taxpayers to protect US national parks.
Some of the unions and non -profit groups are also complainants in another trial before a San Francisco judge contesting the mass layoffs of probation workers. In this case, judge William Alsup ordered the government in March to reintegrate these workers, but the United States Supreme Court later blocked its order.
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California Daily Newspapers
