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University of Toronto visiting law professor and economist Neil H. Buchanan discusses Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumerâs decision to avert a government shutdown by supporting a controversial continuing resolution (CR), despite backlash from Democrats and anti-Trump groups who saw it as a capitulation.
Agencies and initiatives focused on combatting election interference have been early targets of Trump and his political appointees, most notably when it comes to countering the spread of mis- and disinformation and coordinating information-sharing activities with state and local officials.
The Trump administration appears to be preparing to comply with multiple court orders to quickly place tens of thousands of federal workers fired during their probationary periods, according to officials at three agencies briefed on the plans.
The reinstatements are to take immediate effect, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for Northern California said when issuing his preliminary injunction from the bench, and agencies were directed not to make any excuse for delaying the rehirings.
Education joins the Office of Personnel Management, General Services Administration and U.S. Agency for International Development in issuing widespread layoffs to date.
âWe need to seriously question the idea of creating long-term gas contracts and also supporting infrastructure in third countries,â added Ville Niinistö, a Green lawmaker also on the energy committee and a former Finnish environment minister.
The National Fraternal Order of Police in 2024 sent a letter to the leaders of the House Armed Services Committee, urging them to âexercise [their] power of the purse and oversightâ to ensure DOD implements the standardized credential mandate.
Bacon used the example of cuts to U.S. foreign aid that could have had significant consequences: âWe put a foreign-aid freeze out there, and we realized at the last minuteâthankfully, if we had gone another couple minutes it would have been too lateâthat we prevented the funding of the Kurds that were detaining 10,000 ISIS terrorists.
President Biden while in office faced some calls to fire DeJoy, a long-time Republican donor who came to USPS after running a successful private sector logistics company, though he could only be removed by the board or on his own volition.
These practices undermine such regulatory agencies' accountability to the American people and prevent a unified and coherent execution of Federal law,â Trump wrote in the directive.
Staff in their probationary periodsâmostly recent hires, though in some cases longtime federal workersâreceived notice that they must report into the office Thursday and bring all of their government equipment, identification cards, parking permits and other documents.
President Trump began his second term in office by signing an executive order to create the Department of Government Efficiency and institute a sweeping federal hiring freeze, exempting only positions related to immigration enforcement and security.