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Federal judge rules Trump DHS plan for 50% FEMA staffing cuts was unlawful
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Illston didn't order a specific remedy to carry out her opinion but directed the two sides to meet and decide on a course of relief.
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The judge said the plan, put together by DHS, appeared as if it was “pulled from thin air” and would impede FEMA’s ability to fulfill its legally mandated duty to respond to disasters.
A federal judge determined Friday that the Trump administration broke the law when it attempted to cut the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) workforce, a ruling which coincided with America's hurricane season. In her order, U.S.
By Fadel Allassan, Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge said in a filing Friday that a Trump administration order for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its staffing nearly in half was illegal.
A federal judge on Friday prevented a Trump administration directive from going into effect that sought to cut the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s workforce in half. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California, who was appointed under former President Bill Clinton,…
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it ordered that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's workforce be cut in half.
The issue of the FEMA staffing was part of a much larger lawsuit filed by the American Federation of Government Employees and other labor groups, pushing back on efforts by the Trump administration to slash the federal workforce.
For decades, Washington has operated on a simple principle: federal agencies grow, but they never shrink. Budgets inflate. Headcounts balloon. Nobody gets fired. And every...
Markwayne Mullins pointed to technology investments as a way for the disaster agency to operate with a smaller workforce, even as a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that DHS "unlawfully ordered” FEMA to cut its staffing by half.
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