{"id":1982,"date":"2025-03-16T06:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T06:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/breaking-a-federal-judge-deals-a-crushing-blow-to-donald-trump-and-maga-oligarch-elon-musk-by-ordering-key-government-departments-to-hire-back-tens-of-thousands-of-employees-who-were-unceremoniously\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T06:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T06:07:35","slug":"breaking-a-federal-judge-deals-a-crushing-blow-to-donald-trump-and-maga-oligarch-elon-musk-by-ordering-key-government-departments-to-hire-back-tens-of-thousands-of-employees-who-were-unceremoniously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: A federal judge deals a crushing blow to Donald Trump and MAGA oligarch Elon Musk by ordering key government departments to hire back tens of thousands of employees who were unceremoniously fired."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-2981\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content mh-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-417-1024x793.png 1024w, https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-417-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-417-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-417.png 1080w\" src=\"https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-417-1024x793.png\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class=\"wp-image-2983 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-417-1024x793.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-417-1024x793.png 1024w, https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-417-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-417-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-417.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is a huge win for those of us who actually want a functioning government\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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\u2019s a lie,\u201d stated U.S. District Judge William Alsup.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that the departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Energy, Interior, Agriculture, and Treasury must \u201coffer reinstatement to any and all probationary employees terminated on or about February 13.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>February 13th was when Trump\u2019s Office of Personnel Management directed department and agency heads to begin the mass firings.<\/p>\n<p>Probationary workers are those who have been hired or promoted in the last year or two. In other words, they are some of the most valuable workers in our government. If you\u2019ve been recently promoted it\u2019s because you\u2019re doing a great job \u2014 not because you\u2019re disposable.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Alsup bluntly stated that the firing directive was illegal and added that terminations in general can be permitted as long as \u201cit\u2019s done correctly under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the judge asked for a list of all the probationary employees who were fired as well as an explanation of what each department and agency is doing to complying with his order.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; This is a huge win for those of us who actually want a functioning government\u2026 \u201cIt is sad, a sad day when our government would fire some good &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}