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BONTA SUES TRUMP OVER FEDERAL WORKER FIRINGS
Last week, Attorney General Rob Bonta joined more than a dozen other states in suing President Donald Trump and his administration for mass firing probationary employees.
“This sweeping mass firing is, simply put, illegal,” Bonta said at a Friday press conference. “The president has, once again, overstepped his authority by a mile.”
The lawsuit targets a wide number of federal agencies including the Department of Defense, the Department of Interior, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Veterans Affairs, among others.
Bonta said the federal administration violated its own Administrative Procedures Act, which guarantees workers receive warnings of mass layoffs and ensures protection for military veterans. It’s not clear how many federal employees in the state have been laid off, but Bonta wants to know. Specificially, Bonta has asked the federal government how many veterans and their spouses have been fired since Trump took office given this group has special termination protections.
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