Nathan Layne, Alexandra Alper and Daniel Wiessner
The potential scale of President Donald Trump's efforts to shrink the U.S. federal government could become clearer on Thursday, the deadline for government agencies to submit plans for a second wave of mass layoffs and to slash their budgets.
Trump's efforts to fire government workers, however, hit a legal snag on Thursday, with a California federal judge ordering six agencies to reinstate thousands of probationary employees who had been dismissed in recent weeks.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled that probationary workers, typically those with less than two years on the job, should be reinstated at the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Interior and the Treasury Department.
His ruling does not affect the career federal employees set to be fired by agencies in plans to be submitted to the White House and the Office of Personnel Management on Thursday, the government's human resources department. That process could eliminate tens of thousands of federal jobs.
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