A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's plan to cut staffing at FEMA by 50% was unlawful.

A federal judge has ruled that a plan by the Trump administration to slash staffing at the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters by 50% was unlawful.

The opinion issued late Friday marked a victory for labor groups who had sued the agency. The labor organization had argued that plans by the Department of Homeland Security, which was then led by Secretary Kristi Noem, violated congressional protections that were designed to safeguard the independence of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Cool, so Republicans get to break shit and then told later it was doubleplus unlegal along with some fingerwagging, but they are not made to rub their noses in their own shit and told they must clean up their own goddamnned mess?

    I bet anything we get more Murc’s Law Media bullshit when the Democrats are not able to snap their fingers and fix it overnight, and tell voters they are justified in their low-info response (sitting out, voting R or voting third party).