A coalition of more than two dozen labor unions, cities and nonprofits sued President Donald Trump’s administration, claiming that its broad federal workforce cuts were an illegal power grab.
The complaint filed on Monday in San Francisco federal court said the “large-scale reductions in force” that Trump ordered, opens new tab federal agency chiefs to implement on February 11 lacked Congressional approval, and violated the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers.
“When the President takes for himself the legislative power of Congress to recreate federal agencies in the manner he sees fit,” the complaint said, “he threatens the very constitutional foundation of this nation.”
Trump has said the “Workforce Optimization Initiative” coordinated by his Department of Government Efficiency, which is overseen by billionaire Elon Musk, would transform the federal bureaucracy by eliminating “waste, bloat, and insularity.”
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday: “This department has vigorously defended President Trump’s
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