"Does not have any authority whatsoever": Judge rules Trump admin's mass firings likely illegal

U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted temporary relief to a group of labor organizations representing federal workers.

Alsup ordered the Office of Personnel Management to inform agencies that it lacks the authority to fire probationary employees.

Probationary employees, federal workers with less than a year in their posts, are an early target of DOGE 's plan to slash the federal workforce.