Chalk up another loss for Trump in the Courts. Wins have been few, losses many. 
I certainly disagree with the notion “We are all essential worker.” But let’s discuss the political reality of preceding on dubious legal grounds.
You’re Rehired!
Politico reports Thousands of Fired Federal Workers Must Be Rehired Immediately.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies to rehire tens of thousands of probationary employees who were fired amid President Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office to sidestep legal requirements for reducing the federal workforce.
And even if it is upheld on appeal, it does not guarantee that all the workers will be able to get their jobs back permanently: Alsup made clear that agencies still have the authority to implement “reductions in force,” as long as they follow the proper procedures for doing so. Federal agencies are currently finalizing “reduction in force” plans.
Alsup issued his ruling in a lawsuit brought by federal employee unions. He lashed out at the Justice Department over its handling of the case, saying he believes that Trump administration lawyers were hiding the facts about who directed the mass firings.
“You will not bring the people in here to be cross-examined. You’re afraid to do so because you know cross examination would reveal the truth,” the judge said to a DOJ attorney during a hearing Thursday. “I tend to doubt that you’re telling me the truth. … I’m tired of seeing you stonewall on trying to get at the truth.”
Alsup also said the administration attempted to circumvent federal laws on reducing the workforce by attributing the firings to “performance” when that was not in fact the case. The judge called the move “a gimmick.”
“It is sad, a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie,” Alsup said.
More than 5,000 probationary workers for USDA had already won a reprieve last week when the chair of a federal civil service board ordered them reinstated for 45 days. But Alsup is the first federal judge to order the administration to broadly unwind the firing spree that has roiled the federal workforce during Trump’s first two months in office.
“The words that I give you today should not be taken that some wild-and-crazy judge in San Francisco said that an administration cannot engage in a reduction in force,” Alsup said. “It can be done, if it’s done in accordance with the law.”
Alsup is also seeking answers about the administration’s position that fired federal workers should have to seek relief from two executive branch agencies tasked with supervising federal workplace issues: the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Federal Labor Relations Authority. The judge expressed concern that Trump’s effort to remove members of those boards might render them ineffective.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported “Protesters hold signs during a national day of action against Trump administration’s mass firing of National Park Service employees at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025.”
Another Ill-Advised Self-Inflected Mess
The judge’s ruling is correct.
Before anyone gets into a Trumpian Tantrum over the obvious, I support workforce reduction, provided it’s done in accordance with the law.
But time and time again, Trump has issued illegal Executive Orders whose only purpose is to put Trump above the law.
And time and time again, Trump has lost in court, and I have cheered.
Q: Why cheer?
A: Unlike others, I am not a hypocrite.
All I want Trump to do is follow the law. However, Trump wants to be King, not President. Sorry!
On February 6, I commented USAID Cancellation by Trump, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Details
The Right Approach
What Trump should have done is allow Musk to search for questionable items and report them.
Then Trump could legitimately block those items. Also he could have directed USAID to look at and question every expense, flagging and temporarily those that are questionable.
Instead, Trump blocked everything except for “critical items” whatever that means.
Lawsuits are pending and Trump will lose. We should not be in this setup.
“The unfortunate impact might very well be the courts block everything when some very good things may have happened if Trump took a legitimate case-by-case look.“
The Elon Musk Sponsored, Ted Mack Legal Amateur Hour
On February 9, I discussed The Elon Musk Sponsored, Ted Mack Legal Amateur Hour
The problem with the DOGE approach is the mission may backfire spectacularly.
What to Expect from a USAID Shutdown
- My constitutional law expert says “Contractors will sue. There will have been no valid legal basis for stopping contract payments. So, under the contracts, the federal government will pay a bundle in penalties and equitable adjustments.“
- The courts will force a reversal. And no good will come from this approach.
This is the Elon Musk sponsored, Ted Mack Legal Amateur Hour.
Correct Call
Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Pause on USAID Payouts
On March 5, I noted Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Pause on USAID Payouts
Cancellation or Timing?
The Supreme Court’s Wednesday order was brief, but it stressed that the case was still in preliminary stages and that the government wasn’t contesting the order by Judge Ali to pay the contractors, only the timeline he set for doing so.
So, team Trump is no longer even arguing USAID would be shut down. Fancy that after Musk’s hype about shutting it down.
Rather, Trump now just wants to approve the timeline at which payments go out, but it wants too long to decide.
This court smackdown is a good thing. I don’t want Trump running roughshod over the Constitution any more than I did Biden. Hypocrites, of course, don’t see it that way.
Addendum to March 5 Post
Email Exchange With Constitutional Expert Friend (CEF) on USAID
CEF: Remember, this is not a final ruling. The case came up on an appeal from a TRO, so the question is whether the Government must continue to pay while the parties litigate the question whether the President has authority to stop payments.
The majority wrote a very brief opinion, per curiam (no one designated as author) and did not really discuss the issues. It’s three paragraphs and pretty much says that the Government did not carry its burden on the application.
Me: But Trump did not even try to claim they can cancel all aid. That was the position of Trump and Musk in the beginning. If they cannot win on this point, how are they going to win on cancellation?
CEF: Today’s win was procedural. I.e., the standards for injunctive relief were met and pending a final decision, payments can continue. But one of the standards for an injunction is that the party seeking the injunction is LIKELY TO SUCCEED ON THE MERITS. Five members so the Court apparently have decided that the applicants are likely to succeed, so that means they are likely to make Trump a loser. If you can’t prevent the distribution of Congressionally approved funds, you certainly can’t shut down an agency that Congress has mandated, if that’s what you mean by cancellation.
Me: “If you can’t prevent the distribution of Congressionally approved funds, you certainly can’t shut down an agency that Congress has mandated, if that’s what you mean by cancellation.” Yes, exactly what I mean.
Me: “If you can’t prevent the distribution of Congressionally approved funds, you certainly can’t shut down an agency that Congress has mandated, if that’s what you mean by cancellation.” Yes, exactly what I mean.
CEF: All Trump has to do is go to the Republican-controlled Congress and get it to repeal the USAID statute. A President can’t do that. Or at least not assuming we’re still living in a country governed by the US Constitution.
CEF graduated top of Harvard Law Review and has argued many cases before the Supreme court.
Conversation With CEF Today
CEF: This case is a bit trickier, but there’s a decent (more than 50%) chance it will be upheld. By the way, I know judge Alsup. I worked with him when we were both young lawyers.
Me: What’s stupid is firing park workers. You should see the lines at Zion and Arches.
Trails would have to be closed. People would be angry as hell. This judge did Trump a favor.
CEF: The reason I say only 50% is because it depends on the circumstances of each firing. Take your case of the park workers. If Congress has appropriated funds specifically for the payment of park workers, the odds are very high that the order is upheld. If, on the other hand, Congress has merely granted a fund for the Park service and given the administration discretion for the use of the money, the case becomes more complicated. And you then go to a second level of argument that looks at the terms on which the park workers were hired. Judge Allsup said that the rationale on which they were fired was a “sham.” I’ve not read the opinion, but this suggests that the workers could not be fired unless certain terms were met and Trump’s lawyers made up reasons for the formal dismissal notice that facially complied with the requirements, but had no basis in fact. I’ll go find the actual opinion and give you a rundown.
Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
I have discussed Trump’s ridiculous executive order ending birthright citizenship many times.
My most recent synopsis was February 20, 2025 in Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
Trump’s case on birthright citizenship is so weak that the Supreme Court might not even take it.
DOGE Makes Huge Mistake Firing Nuclear Workers, Now Seeks to Rehire Them
On February 17, I commented DOGE Makes Huge Mistake Firing Nuclear Workers, Now Seeks to Rehire Them
When you fire people without understanding what they even do, you make big mistakes.
What a Total Clown Show
Q: How did this happen?
A: Trump surrounded himself with complete legal idiots on DOGE, on firings, and on birthright citizenship.
To work in the Trump administration, a requirement going in was that one had to believe every idiotic thing Trump believed on tariffs, on the economy, and on all legal matters.
When you surround yourself with economic and legal fools, this is what happens.
Q: What do we call this?
A: Winning, silly.
Q: Why?
A: Everything Trump does is winning by definition. Contradictions cannot exit.
For a discussion of tariff contradictions, please see Lutnick Says Tariffs Can Eliminate the IRS and Balance the Budget
The stupid thing about these firings is all Trump had to do was get Congress to go along. Congress would not have agreed to all of the cuts Trump wants, but it would have agreed with some of them.
But Trump does not want to be President, he wants to be King. The courts wisely said no.
Everyone should applaud because the next President may very well want to be a Democrat King.
What will the rehiring cost? Probably a lot less than the US government spent on meddling in the affairs of Ukraine since early 2014 (including the Maidan Revolution). Just add the cost to the national debt.
The justice system is highly politicized which is why these rulings are being made, not respect for constitutional law. The supreme court will overturn many of the decisions. DOGE will accomplish at least some of their aims.
Let them stay fired. If the need is real, they can apply for the job and have a review of their baseline performance. This sense of entitlement to federal employment is a virus. A pandemic – to borrow Fauci’s parlance – afflicting many in DC.
If the employees were doing their job in a competent manner, they should not have been fired for cause in this arbitrary manner. It sounds like some of the higher ups who decided that other government employees should lie to speed up the process ought to get the axe. Even though I voted for Trump as the lesser of two evils, I am beginning to think that he should be impeached for cause although I doubt that this will happen. Isn’t he lucky that he is not living in England in 1649, when King Charles I was executed. He was found guilty of being a “tyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy.” (from Google).
We’re all lucky to not be living in 1649 England. I have no sympathy for the pigs at the trough in DC. I should because it’s still people losing jobs, but I can’t do it. DC is what happens when you have a mass of people unable to call each other out on the bs everyone knows is being shoveled.
Enough is enough.
If they were rehired and paid, but confined to counting paper clips all day in a rubber room while the damage of their respective departments was lessened, if not eliminated, then it would still be a win.
Call me a constitutional ignoramus, or any malevolent name, but if I were President Trump, I’d tell the judge to send in his army to enforce his decision. Dismantling the deep state is going to be a messy job and upset a lot of people. Well, my response to the fired persons is that you’ve sucked off the government teat long enough. The alternative may be that EVERYONE is really going to suffer in the 2030’s when the interest payments on the Federal debt are 2 or more trillion dollars a year, and because there will be very few buyers of Treasury securities, the whole pile of promises will collapse. Better just to adapt now while we still have a functioning economy. Frankly, it’s going to take a benevolent dictator to clean up the deep state.
The whole thing is illegal. Congress created and appropriated funding for those programs for the executive branch to administer. Its fine if Trump et al wish to work with Congress to eliminate, roll back or otherwise change these programs *in future budgets*. Along the same lines, essentially no critical thought has gone into any of the cuts. Any sane business buying another evaluates what departments to keep and what employees to keep and combine into the merged entity. What Musk/Trump are doing doesn’t even rise to grade school level.
Any sane business person would not lay off thousands of tax collectors at the IRS in this haphazard manner, especially in tax season. It is the one department of government that brings in more revenue than it costs to operate.
Your naïveté is impressive.
“Remember, this is not a final ruling.”
Boy, that sounds like a really important point doesn’t it?
And how about this incredible insight. While doing it via the shotgun / shock & awe approach, Trump is helping the Dems look silly. They’re falling over themselves fighting EVERY SINGLE PENNIE Trump is trying to cut. At some point, Trump should tell his press secretary to start every meeting with three numbers:
Current National Debt: $36.215T
Current YTD Deficit: $1.146T
Current Annual Interest Expect (outdated by 2 quarters by the way) = $1.124T
The RNC needs to start buying airtime of TV & the web to make sure every American understands how BAD America’s finances are. I sincerely hate it that people are losing their jobs. But we can’t save everyone’s job & also not cut spending that oftentimes directly ties to employment.
Schumer can’t have his cake & eat it too. He’s slowly coming to that conclusion as will the courts. The executive branch has to have the ability to cut jobs. We can certainly all agree that process could look a lot different than what Trump seems to be gunning for.
“What Trump should have done is allow Musk to search for questionable items and report them.” This is thinking that Trump and Musk have the intelligence above a small child’s ability to make complex decisions.
They have proven they don’t have enough intelligence to wipe their own butt.
“What Trump should have done is allow Musk to search for questionable items and report them.” This is thinking that Trump and Musk have the intelligence above a small child’s ability to make complex decisions.
They have proven they don’t have enough intelligence to wipe their own butt, hence the odor.
“We are all essential workers.” This was a ridiculous comment, but several others were obviously made, by everyone involved.
The judge’s ruling is correct, because of the manor in which Trump (allowed) let it take place.I equally support workforce reduction, provided it’s done in accordance with the law, and that was not accomplished.
I don’t like the fact that Trump has issued so many Executive Orders. This is what Biden, and many Presidents do, and exactly why most get overturned as soon as the office changes direction. Why push things temporarily, so they can later be overturned. That’s no “Real Change” but rather “Temporary Change” and that’s useless for changing the way America does business, in terms of a lasting plan of action, to be accomplished.
I don’t necessarily cheer, as it’s not something to cheer about imo. Trump should be slapped down for it, and hopefully He learns a lesson from it. I do agree that nobody should be running roughshod over the Constitution, EVER!
I agree, It was stupid to fire park workers, when they could have been reassigned. Maybe this is the way it works? You must allege the person of their current post, and then you can transfer them over? It Doesn’t look like that took place either though? Just a bad decision, for immediate gain…
Trump has surrounded himself with many extremely intelligent people, and more than capable of doing the jobs they have been hired to do. One problem I see, is like you see I believe, and that’s these folks are not trained, aware of, understanding of, and knowledgeable about, the inner workings of the Federal Government. This is not something you can be trained for in a few weeks or even months, it’s an extremely convoluted play ground, and that was done on purpose, make no mistake about that! It was done for the very reason we are seeing in fact Imo! The use of Your Word: Idiots, is quite harsh, as these people are far from Idiots. They are just not Government Entrenched Employees, and there is a massive difference imo.
This was indeed a bad approach, when Trump should and could have went directly to Congress to get some of it done. As you stated “Congress would not have agreed to all of the cuts Trump wanted” but some!
I do think Trump does want things done much quicker than the wheels of the Government spin, but He must “Do It Right” or deal with this, and have everything delayed, which is very “Counterproductive”
Why reassign unnecessary workers? You get rid of them. Maybe you have never been in the private sector but if you had then you wouldn’t have been shocked. Most of us here have already been fired or let go from a job so for us it is no big deal. You find another one.
I think you misunderstand the issue.
There were more workers for work at the position they were assigned. As a result, if you are smart and from the public sector, of which I was, then you take the “Best” of those needed to be removed and “Keep Them” if at all possible.
Good job Mish. You have the TDS component foaming at the mouth.
Gov shutdown deferred
They can’t do a mass firing of those on probation due to poor performance. They can be individually fired for poor performance.
They are not afforded the same protections as career civil servants since they are on probation. But there still has to be a paper trail documenting the poor performance for those on probation.
That is why its easier to fire a “probie” but its not that easy where you can do a mass firing of those on probation with the sole intent of conducting a reduction in force.
Every job I’ve taken with a one year probation period didn’t require a firing process. It could be a no-fault separation.
Typical corporate process takes more than a year to fire people, so what is the use of a probation period if you still have to do the process?
“Before anyone gets into a Trumpian Tantrum over the obvious, I support workforce reduction, provided it’s done in accordance with the law.
But time and time again, Trump has issued illegal Executive Orders whose only purpose is to put Trump above the law.”
Thank you, Mish. This is what the MAGAs don’t understand. The ends don’t justify the means, even if I agree with (some, not all of) the ends. Congress are our representatives, not Trump.
I will not trade away the constituion in a Faustian bargain.
Naive
Huh – you keep projecting thoughts into Trump’s head – the only thing I’ve heard Trump say is he’s doing this for the American people, and if he said he wanted to be a king, it was joke. Get a grip, Mish
Trump is not a democrat king. Nor a republican king. He is a dicator in the making, and the the only thing we should be amazed at is how fast it happened and how it came out of nowhere.
Get ahold of yourself.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0chd6ZP1p6Y&pp=ygUXYWlycGxhbmUgc25hcCBvdXQgb2YgaXQ%3D
It didn’t come out of nowhere, he announced it during the campaign. The only startling thing to me is the MAGA (AINO) Americans in name only and the 90M citizens that couldn’t be bothered to vote as their citizenship should require.
If America survives Trump the political pendulum will swing wildly the opposite direction, that probably won’t be good either.
Trump not only has a duty, but the authority to ignore judicial overreach.
Trump might ignore SF federal judge temp ruling.
Americans have the duty if not the authority to say goodbye to Trump by any
legalmeans.Sorry, Mish, you’re going to be wrong on this, also. As a bonus, this from Jared Woodard, Research Investment Committee head at Bank of America — “the global handoff from big government to the free market may prove slippery, but it seems necessary given large deficits and bloated debt burdens.”
It’s from a great article in ZeroHedge today. Here’s a link.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wall-street-finally-admits-doges-work-detox-government-critical-will-be-brutally-painful
Now, the Fed needs to do the right thing by dramatically slashing interest rates and lowering the value of the dollar.
Wrong on what? “this” is double sided which you don’t seem to get; there is workforce reduction (I think we all agree with that) and operating illegally and above the law. The constitution is pretty clear – even the President is accountable to the law. As a bonus, Mish is further correct in saying the end does not justify the means.
From Wikipedia, and I doubt that you believe in workforce reduction:
Within the executive branch itself, the president has broad powers to manage national affairs and the priorities of the government. The president can unilaterally issue a variety of rules, regulations, and instructions, whose impact and visibility vary widely. Memoranda and other informal orders may not be published. National security directives may be classified. Public proclamations and international agreements are more easily tracked, as are executiveorders, which have the binding force of law upon federal agencies but do not require approval of the United States Congress.[32]
I’ve said this before on this blog. Trump/Musk could have followed Clinton’s Fed employee downsizing methodology which was primarily achieved via natural attrition and buyouts.
Prior to Trump taking office over 100,000 Feds retired or left their jobs every year. The Fed workforce is generally older than the US workforce as a whole. The largest age bracket of Feds is between 50-54 years old. 30% of Fed employees are over 55. If Trump simply froze hiring and shuffled needed staff between agencies he could have elimated over 400,000 Fed jobs via simple attrition. Possibly even more.
Clinton elimated 426,000 Fed jobs this way. DOGE chose the hatchet methodology which appears to be backfiring.
Finally, does anyone think it’s a good idea to have employees who are in charge of critical public safety (think air traffic controllers) worried about their jobs or having to take on more work because DOGE cut their support staff? I sure don’t.
I dont think they were willing to wait even a year for any natural attrition. They knew all this was illegal. They were gonna roll the dice and see if the public would come to their side and the “legal” stuff would be forgotten. It was going to be their only chance for awhile.
I think DOGE does not intend to lay off or conduct a reduction in force of “essential workers” like air traffic controllers.
I think they are focused on staff such as at Department of Education, EPA, USAID, as well as DEI administrators.
My best estimate is Trump just wants to keep the Fiscal Year 2025 deficit no more than 3% (i.e., annual rate of inflation) above Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 deficit which was $1.9 trillion.
“…I think DOGE does not intend to lay off or conduct a reduction in force of “essential workers” like air traffic controllers…”
That’s not point. It doesn’t matter what Musk says. Even if ATCs are told they are “safe” how can they be sure in this crazy environment? As I stated above, getting rid of ATC support staff means the work has to be shifted somewhere, but where, the ATCs? We know that transportation secretary Duffy already had a blow-up with Musk when Musk tried firing ATCs (Duffy wisely stepped in and stopped it). How about all of the nuclear safety techs Musk fired, but were then immediately rehired?
The tech start-up mentality of “move fast break things” works just fine in a tech start-up environment. It is the worst methodology one can employ when attempting to reorg. an organization that is in charge of safety. In the former situation the worst that can happen is a venture capitalist loses some money, in the latter, people (or many multiples of people) could die.
Are you aware that as of Feb. 19, about 7,000 IRS employees were laid off in the DOGE current reign of terror? The IRS is the one government area that generates far more revenue than it costs to operate.
You are, of course, correct! But, the groundwork for what has happened over the last month and a half was laid over the last eight years. If you are a leader who desires to use extreme measures that impact certain groups in society, you must first desensitize the public’s empathy for the affected groups. You do this by dehumanizing and scapegoating. This has been persistent since he came down the escalator in 2015. Remember “murders and rapists,” remember “caravans” and “invaders.” Then you have Federal government employees; he has defined them as “the deep state,” which gave oxygen to Qanon conspiracies that center on a vast government employee-led sex trafficking ring; he has talked about government employees being traitors and needing to be dealt with. This is the playbook, and it has been executed in plain sight.
“…Then you have Federal government employees; he has defined them as “the deep state,”…”
Very much agree with this. Sure some Fed employees can be defined as the “deepstate” (CIA, FBI, select employees at those sorts of agencies). But those are a tiny fraction of Fed employees. Claiming that “Steve” who processes claims at the VA or “Sally” who is a USDA meat packing plant inspector are part of the “deepstate” is down right moronic. In my view, most Federal employees fall into the “Steve”/”Sally” category. Most are working stiffs like the rest of us.
Oh my. You should read more. I hope that you are on a flight that one of these frauds is controlling. I love your stupid…, er, naïveté.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/03/13/faa-employee-caught-helping-minority-air-traffic-controller-candidates-cheat-their-way-to-a-job-1528943/
Funny, as the increase in Federal worker highering occurred iin 2023 and 2024, how there was no King, and his court, identified.
If not now, when? If not Trump and DOGE, who?
You have food in your refrigerator, gas in your tank and your lights are on. What do you have to complain about?
It sounds like your refrigerator is empty pal. Is that why you’re always complaining?
Im not complaining. Im listing the contra-facts and you can retort or not. 🙂
I guess now we know why repubs are asking for an additional $4 trillion on the debt ceiling. I said from the very beginning it would all be a dog and pony show coupled with circus acts and here we are.
Short story: 1977. I was working for (to be unnamed here) MINI-COMPUTER MANUFACTURER in the Silicon valley. Our Wash. DC Sr Sales Rep landed the Soc Sec Admin. A HUGE CONTRACT.
I was assigned the task, as a Sales Services Supervisor (first “professional Job”) to get that order out. We had 9 weeks to get the Systems built, tested, packaged and so on.
WE FELL BEHIND by 5 working days.
The SSA Buyer contacted us with the news that our Order would be subject to “liquidated damages” to the tune of $125,000 PER DAY.
I learned that on Monday the first working day where I found out we had a TESTING ISSUE.
So, we ultimately were fined $625,000 and paid it AFTER we were told to ship those Systems to a Warehouse in Maryland, at OUR EXPENSE.
Final chapter: they were never installed. When I left that Job to run the SF REGIONAL SALES OFFICE (promoted) I got word that they were never installed ….. EVER!
The SSA finally paid off the $97 Million Dollar Invoice because I was then in Sales and had contact with my contacts in DC. NEVER INSTALLED and NEVER USED as far as I know.
WASTE LIKE THAT HAD BEEN GOING ON FOREVER!!!!!!!!!
Fed Govt has to have a 1000 page Federal Acquisition Regulation because of all the people over the decades that tried to scam and screw the govt out of workable products at decent prices. Again, the problem is all of you. If your self-esteem wasnt so low that you have to lie, cheat and steal your way thru life, the govt wouldn’t need as many regulations and ridiculous amounts of time for each buy.
Yeah….good thing they have that book because what the previous poster described never ever happens again and again and again….
Does the DNC pay you to post your nonsense here?
Scott, you just established a new low standard of thinking here. Well done.
Unfortunately, people as wise and open-minded as SCLBoo are deemed qualified to vote. However, it’s good to read his opinion here so we can see the reasoning behind the policies he and his ilk vote for.
David, better get on that plane so you can see your next MAGA performance. I hear at the next one JD is gonna do Camptown Races with his armpit.
Let the judge use his court budget to hire them.
Dumb
Look in a mirror and see stupid is as stupid says.
WOW! Nobody is pulling punches on Trump’s handling of the economy in the White House briefing room … not even Fox News. https://x.com/therecount/status/1899572350951027115
Lol! What a show!
The reason the US GDP did so well in 2024 (relative to other developed countries)was due to 6.4% GDP deficit spending; a part of that spending was massive hiring (of mostly useless) government jobs and supporting (more useless and anti-American) NPO’s to transport annually 2-3 million illegals from Tierra del Fuego and points north to American cities, and ultimately to politically promote a Biden win or futues democrat wins. The real economy of struggling American workers with 2% losses in their wage earning power said no to Biden”s lessor inarticulate replacement.
The GOP has taken Pelosi’s 2023, CR 2024 budget. and given it to democrats to thumbs up or thumbs down. With the coming recession and a GDP decline, the 2025 % GDP deficit spending will be even greater than 2024, Senate democrats should take a deep breathe before downing Pelosi’s budget. It is both appalling to. see the type of graft DOGE is unearthing and its relative smallness in relation to the actual % deficit spending.
… or future democrat wins
In a day they will appeal and another judge will kick it to a higher court that will overturn the first judge. In the meantime, the firings will continue.
I think Trump has hit his wall. This isnt fun for him anymore.
It’s great fun for him. Like Musk he thrives on overcoming adversary.
Hopefully the message received is that a government job is not permanent. You can be terminated. We have a problem both with government size and productivity. Part of the latter is due to the sentiment that government jobs are permanent. They are not.
Some of us stayed 35 years because were were modestly productive. No one likes a crusader.
Well that explains so much…..
Most people experience a bell curve shape of career productivity that at most lasts about 10 years. After that point, diminishing returns kick in. To spend 35 years at one place means there are problems everywhere. This isn’t 1970.
Shut it all down. Declare it another one of their bogus holidays – forever.
Gladly. And when your kid dies of measles, remember who killed them. You.
This is bush league stuff! Amateur hour is an understatement. These people hate the government that they have been temporarily entrusted to operate on behalf of all American people, including those who work for the government.
People hate the government until they get wronged or injured. Then they cant run to a govt office fast enough.
Activist judges are taking the law into their own hands when they countermand an elected president’s perfectly reasonable employment-sector decisions. Such activist judges should restrict themselves to interpreting the Constitution, not making law as state actors themselves. The Left-Wing kraken with its many tentacles had spread its influence far and wide in the judiciary. It is well known that the Left has a solid ally in the Deep State Bureaucracy, whose powers are bent toward liberal ends.
This bias affects the fair workings-out of the American system. If, in the course of daily affairs, judges cannot be trusted to impartial and unbiased rulings, it will seed decay in the American body politics, as ordinary citizens opt out of the political process and special interest groups amass greater and ever greater power.
Although faith in Congress is low, the presidential office still has some stature to it, and judges should not smear this in an attempt at influencing the political domain illegally.
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Well, our courts have been on an activist tear for quite some time now. Let’s see, was it during FDR’s long tenure, or was it during Wilson’s progressive run, or maybe when Jackson went up against the court? I think it’s been ever since there were judges.
They just follow the law, guys. One side wins and one side loses.
Only two comments. I’m sure I’ll have more later.
The judge is an 80 year old Ultra Left Wing hack appointed by Clinton.
This is not a trial. It was a Hearing on a TRO. TRO hearings involve lawyers, not witnesses.
Absent extraordinary circumstances, witnesses are not required and do not appear until at least the Prelim Inj phase.
The judge said:
“You will not bring the people in here to be cross-examined. You’re afraid to do so because you know cross examination would reveal the truth”.
This case is less than 30 days old. This judge is trying to turn it into a trial, that would normally take a year or more. The language above exactly demonstrates why an 80 year old should not be sitting on the bench in a federal district court.
This is language for the media and has nothing to do with justice. You can see that because every TV station is playing that clip.
The Administration needs to fight back harder, in public. And SCOTUS needs to stop the nonsense. They had the chance and passed (even though I think they handled the Ali matter nicely, as I predicted).
These employees were probationary, at will, and knew they could be let go at any time. It’s a BS lawsuit.
San Francisco judge, if you know what I mean.
If you are right, it will be reversed on appeal. If youre wrong, you are wrong.
Are you really this stupid. They will not be rehired. President Trump has issued an EO that he will not obey any of these neo-FASCIST court ruling until the SCOTUS rules on them.
Every case will now be sent to the Supremes. Amy is showing she may be tired of being used by the used car salesman and start seeing that everything he’s doing is illegal, and always has been. Until he starts ignoring the courts, he hasnt crossed that line into dictatorship. One can always hope.
Alsup said that reduction in force had to follow certain protocols. CEF is fishing and unprepared. Do you think Congress approves each worker’s salary and head count of each agency to receive salary? Come on.
I did not know that kings were elected.
Hitler was elected in 1933. After that is history.
The leaders of the Brown Shirts were gay, along with many of their followers. Would that make the Dems Brownshirts? No wonder you worked in government.
One guy at the top doesnt mean everyone was gay. But perhaps latent homosexuals see gay everywhere.
Ignore the judge and let congress reprimand if they choose to.
Until you lose your court case cause facts were ignored and then you will be on Fox News at 8pm.
Years ago when I first started a job with the Federal Government I was told that when I was in probationary status I could be fired at will at anytime and it was as simple as that. Does this Judge have the power to rewrite employment contracts?
Even probs have rights in their first year. Otherwise theyd be firing every black one that came thru the door.
Hey all the probs got rehired yesterday. I guess the courts do have something to say.
“I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone”. — Barrack Obama, regarding his executive orders.
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”
“Sir, your winnings.”
“Oh, thank you very much.”
The toilet bowl of DC swirling.
Come on Mish, printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrr.
You didn’t check the correct box on form 117838390782. Line 4023! Back to the end of the line!
If you were the one that had to wait longer because box 82375401465934812092 wasnt checked by the person in front of you, youd scream bloody murder. Govt is about equity and fairness.
“ Govt is about equity and fairness.”
There is no need to listen to your continued bleating if you really believe this. No wonder you were/are (you certainly seem to have plenty of time on your hands for posting) a 35 year government employee.
Lololol. The Marxist is outed. Though I would doubt you’ve ever experienced that direct level of dysfunction.
And you are a Nazi. Hows that feel to be branded by a lie?
These doge morons are too ignorant to even know what the law is and too arrogant to ask someone who does know. I doubt they get it right on the second try either.
There is nothing autocratic about stopping waste; these people signed a contract acknowledging they are in a probationary period which enables their employer, The Orange Menace, to fire them without cause.
I call this a win for The Orange Menace since it is a blatant violation of the separation of powers; he will appeal it and win.
This is a sign of a Country in decline . . . Nothing gets done . . . the legal system is strangling the Country and its People . . .
I agree with you Traveller.
The Us system appears to me to be taking the Brazilian route.Potential is never realized as a result of the legal network, inherent corruption. What a lovely country. Great people with a large population and massive assets. The problem A stall point is the entrenched judiciary, local. Is this our future.
So much for King trump’s autocratic powers……………..
Ignore.