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#massfirings

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Nonilex

#Trump layoffs begin to erode #FDA drug review system

The Trump admin's #MassFirings at the FDA have removed employees critical to reviewing new #medicines, setting back years of effort to bring promising #treatments to #patients more quickly.

The FDA is slated to lose 3,500 employees under Secy of #HHS #RFKJr's massive *restructuring* of US #health agencies….

#NIH #CDC #FDA #PublicHealth #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #research #disease #ethics #USpol
reuters.com/business/healthcar

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Nonilex

No plan—not his *MAHA* agenda, not efficiency, nothing—can realistically explain cuts like these. Instead, the #MassFirings don’t seem to be a means to an end on the way to overhauling American #health. They are an end in themselves.

It’ll take months, if not years, to fully appreciate the effect that the cuts will have on America’s scientific enterprise.

#RFKJr#Trump#HHS
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Nonilex

#US employers added 151k #jobs in Feb, the first full month under the new #Trump admin, extending a streak of job growth to 50 months [#ThankYouJoe]. The #unemployment rate rose to 4.1%, from 4%.

#DOGE’s role: The survey showed a decline of 10k in federal employment. But the report was based on surveys conducted in the 2nd week of Feb, & economists say the admin’s #MassFirings, buyouts & hiring freezes at #FederalAgencies may not fully surface in the monthly data until this spring.

#Economy
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Nonilex

#Trump announced on social media [of course] the next phase of government-gutting.

So far, Trump & #ElonMusk, have directed #MassFirings, prompting lawsuits & sowing confusion. Agencies fired tens of thousands of probationary employees, ignoring personnel laws & what value they brought to the agency.

Trump said, he met with “most of the Secretaries, Elon, & others” to discuss the next phase of reductions.

#USpol#law#DOGE
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Nonilex

Appeals court allows #Trump admin to temporarily remove #watchdog lawyer #HamptonDellinger

A federal appeals court on Wed allowed Trump to temporarily remove the head of an #independent watchdog agency who was investigating the admin’s #MassFirings of probationary #FederalWorkers.

In a 2-pg order, the court granted the Trump admin’s request to stay a lower court ruling that blocked Trump from summarily firing #Dellinger, head of the Office of #SpecialCounsel.

#law
washingtonpost.com/national-se

The Washington Post · Appeals court allows Trump administration to temporarily remove watchdog Hampton DellingerBy Derek Hawkins
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Nonilex

#Trump’s address to #Congress: Rather than boycott Trump’s address on Tues to a joint session of Congress, some Democratic lawmakers are inviting former #FederalWorkers to the speech as a way to protest the #MassFirings & funding cuts that have defined Trump’s first month back in office.

#Musk #DOGE #law #USpol
nytimes.com/2025/03/02/us/poli

The New York Times · Democrats Invite Fired Federal Workers to Trump’s Congressional AddressBy Maya C. Miller
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Nonilex

#Trump has also tried to remove more than a dozen #InspectorsGeneral, as well as members of the National #Labor Relations Board [#NLRB] & the #Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [#EEOC]. Many of the ousted ofcls are contesting their removals in court.

In addition to fighting his own ouster, Dellinger has been arguing that the admin’s #MassFirings of probationary #FederalWorkers is illegal.

#law#NationalSecurity#authoritarianism
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Elon Musk Gets His Most Brutal Smackdown Yet on #DOGE Firings

The judge slammed the #MassFirings as “illegal.”
newrepublic.com/post/192142/el

"A federal #judge has ordered the Office of Personnel Mgmt to rescind #illegal instructions to cull the workforce of federal agencies...

““The #OPM does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the #history of the universe, to hire & fire employees within another agency”"

Text from article: U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California issued an order Thursday saying the directions were unlawful overreach by the OPM and “should be stopped, rescinded.” “The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency,” Alsup said. “It can hire its own employees, yes. Can fire them. But it cannot order or direct some other agency to do so. “OPM has no authority to tell any agency in the United States government, other than itself, who they can hire and who they can fire, period. So on the merits, I think, we start with that important proposition,” he said.
#Resist#Resistance#ElonMusk
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TheAuroraSentinel

Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers were likely unlawful

Attorneys for the coalition cheered the order, although it does not mean that fired employees will automatically be rehired or that future firings will not occur.

sentinelcolorado.com/nation-wo

Sentinel Colorado · Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers were likely unlawfulBy JANIE HAR Associated Press
#DOGE#massfirings
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Nonilex

👏👏Judge blocks #Trump admin’s #MassFirings of #FederalWorkers 👏👏

A federal judge ruled that the terminations at several #FederalAgencies, including the Dept of #Defense, were likely #illegal.

A federal judge on Thurs ordered #OPM to rescind directives that initiated the mass firing of probationary govt workers in several agencies across the government, ruling that the terminations were probably illegal, as a group of labor #unions argued in court.

#law #Musk #DOGE
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20

The Washington Post · Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workersBy Salvador Rizzo
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Nonilex

An independent government agency that reviews personnel actions in the #FederalWorkForce has ordered 6 government employees to be temporarily reinstated after the #Trump admin carried out #MassFirings of probationary employees earlier this month. The independent agency, the #Merit Systems Protection Board, ruled that the unspecificed #FederalAgencies involved had violated #DueProcess rights in the #firings.

#law #labor #Musk #DOGE #chaos #USpol
nytimes.com/live/2025/02/25/us

The New York Times · House Passes G.O.P. Budget Plan for Deep Cuts to Taxes and SpendingBy Catie Edmondson
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Nonilex

Another fired employee said the hundreds of dismissals meant that the #aid agency now had only a skeleton crew to respond to #humanitarian crises.

The appointee running day-to-day operations at #USAID is #PeteMarocco, a #State Dept official overseeing foreign aid who was a #divisive figure at the agency & other government departments in the first #Trump administration. Early this month, #MarcoRubio announced he was taking over the aid agency as acting administrator.

#MassFirings#Musk#USpol
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Nonilex

In addition, 36 people were fired from the Office of Transition Initiatives, a unit in the agency’s conflict prevention bureau that specializes in helping partner countries with political transitions & #democratic initiatives, said US officials & recent agency employees.

#USAID#MassFirings#Trump
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Nonilex

The latest round of dismissals occurred on Friday night, when hundreds of people working for the agency’s Bureau for #Humanitarian Assistance got emails saying their jobs had been terminated. Two employees who got the emails said they were strange because they did not state any job titles specifically & did not have the recipients’ names in the “to” field. They were generic emails sent out in a large wave.

#USAID#MassFirings#Trump
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