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Victory: Trump Administration Can Move Ahead With Layoffs
Townhall ^ | February 20, 2025 | Rebecca Downs

Posted on 02/20/2025 6:36:24 PM PST by george76

There's been plenty of lawsuits involving President Donald Trump's actions in the month he's been in office. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, delivered a victory for the president and his administration on Thursday. In response to the Trump administration looking to seriously decrease the government workforce, government employee unions brought a lawsuit, though they weren't met with the ruling they hoped for..

Judge Cooper ruled that the unions must bring their challenge over the administration's actions before the the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), as federal law mandates.

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Elon Musk has already reacted to the news of Cooper's ruling on X. "Shifting people from low to negative productivity jobs in the government sector to high productivity roles in the commercial sector will greatly improve the average standard of living,"..

Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been working to get to the bottom of government waste and fraud.

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The plan for layoffs comes as the Trump administration offered a buyout program, which ended two weeks ago, on February 6. Federal workers who didn't want to return to working from an office, five years after COVID, were given a "generous payout of eight months," as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared. According to reporting from NewsNation last week, about 77,000 workers accepted the buyout.

Judge Cooper's decision comes after Axios lamented the plight of federal workers and their fears about layoffs just the day before, as Matt covered earlier on Thursday.

Stephen Miller, who has worked at the White House for both of Trump's terms and currently serves as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, also had a memorable exchange with CNN this week about the layoffs.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: layoffs

1 posted on 02/20/2025 6:36:24 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

Code. Learn how to do it.


2 posted on 02/20/2025 6:47:24 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: george76

Why don’t we see all these tears and all these heartache when non-Government employees get laid off? What makes Feddies so much more important than non-governmental workers?


3 posted on 02/20/2025 6:49:38 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was never meant to be a jobs program.)
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To: george76
Shifting people from low to negative productivity jobs in the government sector to high productivity roles in the commercial sector will greatly improve the average standard of living

The thing is, ya gotta realize something about Elon Musk: He's an android. He wields the truth like a knife because to him, truth is truth.

4 posted on 02/20/2025 6:49:58 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

No to coding.

Put all those govt parasites to work on farms to take the place of the illegals that will be leaving.

Maybe they can learn how to work for a living without their starbucks latte.


5 posted on 02/20/2025 6:53:01 PM PST by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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Judge Cooper ruled that the unions must bring their challenge over the administration's actions before the the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), as federal law mandates.

Which is a three member board, which presently has a vacancy. Trump gets to fill that vacancy, and already appointed one member in his first term.
6 posted on 02/20/2025 6:55:29 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: george76
Remember the Biden admin about how to minimize disruption in your life when laid off....

Learn how to code!

There you go, problem solved.

7 posted on 02/20/2025 7:36:43 PM PST by icclearly
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To: Dr. Franklin

Dr. Franklin wrote:



Judge Cooper ruled that the unions must bring their challenge over the administration’s actions before the the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), as federal law mandates.

Which is a three member board, which presently has a vacancy. Trump gets to fill that vacancy, and already appointed one member in his first term.

So it’s a tie if the Trump appointee agrees with President Trump, and the other one disagrees; then nothing stops the layoffs.

Checkmate 😁


8 posted on 02/20/2025 9:12:58 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Landing a federal government job is like winning the lotto. It was pretty much a guaranteed ticket to the good life.


9 posted on 02/20/2025 9:19:03 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: george76

I like the termination notices. “You aren’t needed. Get out.”
Lot of thumb-sucking in DC now.


10 posted on 02/20/2025 9:26:05 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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