Trump Admin Reinstating Nearly 25,000 Fired Federal Workers

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

US President Donald Trump's administration is working to bring back nearly 25,000 fired federal workers after judges ruled their terminations were illegal, court documents show.

Posted by REDIAL at 05:33 PM | 21 COMMENTS | permalink

The Trump administration in court filings has for the first time acknowledged that it fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers, and said federal agencies were working to bring all of them back after a judge ruled that their terminations were likely illegal reut.rs/4iS7r8e

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-- Reuters Legal (@legal.reuters.com) March 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-03-19 12:58 PM

Golly gee whiz rwingers... how much money did we save on this deal?

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-19 01:19 PM

What's to be the punishment for the DOGE Komissar, and his Thousand Little Eichmanns, for this allegedly unconstitutional plot against the United States.

Allegedly.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-19 01:19 PM

@#3 ... What's to be the punishment for the DOGE Komissar, ...

That's a good question.

Will the Courts hold Mr Musk and his ~muskrats~ accountable for the damage they have done?

And then there is all the Federal data that they may have been taking ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-19 02:33 PM

This sort of setback fills Trump with pitiless hatred and an imperative sense of revenge.

But he's already filled with those things so the excess is obliged to leak out various orifices.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-19 03:00 PM

Good. Now we can fire them for poor performance...
--Leon Skum, HR manager

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2025-03-19 05:36 PM

Do the employees have legal recourse beyond back pay? Can they mount a case demanding damages for the tremendous emotional stress and suffering. They seem like there would be some litigation which will make them whole ?

The action was on its face reckless, inadequately researched, carelessly planned and executed, and maliciously implemented and applied.

#7 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-03-19 06:25 PM

How many found different jobs and will tell the dump to shove it?

I would, you can't trust him.

#8 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-03-19 06:36 PM

"Reinstating." That's rather vague, eh? Meanwhile, back at my local supermarket this afternoon, overheard chatter in the aisles and in the checkout line revolved mainly around the noticeable appearance of empty spaces on shelves store-wide. My little solid-red burg has officially entered into it's FAFO phase. I'd point and giggle, but as I'm in the same sinking boat as they are, I believe some commiseration is in order.

#9 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-03-19 07:08 PM

They hired them back?

FishPawn had checked and declared all fired government employees to be lazy.

Why is Trump rehiring these lazy employees back?

Where's FishPawn to explain it?

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-19 07:12 PM

Not to add a left oblique to the discussion, but King Kombover has just announced his intention to flush the entire DOE tomorrow, all with the spasmodic scrawl of his mighty Magic Marker. Hire...fire...re-hire...and now he seems hell-bent to ratherpetulantly guarantee American children become--and remain stone-stick-stupid.

#11 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-03-20 01:55 AM

CLOWN

"Why is Trump rehiring these lazy employees back?"

Because the message from Chief Justice Roberts couldn't be more clear.

The short version: Back off, -------. You attack one of us, you attack all of us.

#12 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-03-20 04:40 AM

So they got a month paid vacation.

Seems kind of wasteful..

So much winnin.

#13 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-20 07:31 AM

15% of America employed by government. Many say they have best benefits and best compensation most security and most don't even need to show up at the office. And apparently fireproof too. The rest of the private sector serfs just need to pay their taxes.

#14 | Posted by Robson at 2025-03-20 11:58 AM

"15% of America employed by government."

24/7 Wall St. reviewed 2018 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to identify the states where government workers make up the largest share of the labor force. Nationwide, 15.1% of workers are employed in the public sector. Government employment tends to be concentrated in sparsely populated states. In these areas, private industry is not as dominant, yet residents still rely on government services like public works and education.

Yeah!

Screw the mostly Republican citizens in America's rural areas!

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-20 12:08 PM

Many say they have best benefits and best compensation most security and most don't even need to show up at the office.

#14 | Posted by ROBSON

A true Trumpet turns their personal assumptions into "many say". We're supposed to believe that you've talked to many federal workers and that most just happened to tell you that they don't even need to show up for work?

#16 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-03-20 01:24 PM

"Many say they have best benefits and best compensation."

Not to you. No government worker has ever said that to you.

Or if they did, they meant, in comparison to whatever it is you do for a living.

Not comparing what they make in the government to a similar role in the private sector.

MadBomber don't you make 2-3x more in the private sector? I know the Blackwater/Xe guys did.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-20 01:31 PM

"Many say"

That's laughable even when Trump says it.

Who are these "many?"

Trump's sycophants in Congress? The White House secretarial pool? An internet survey? Fox viewers? A GOP focus group in Texas?

#18 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-03-21 03:29 AM

hopefully they don't bring any of them back and are just placating the media and the stupid courts. These ridiculous rulings aren't based on anything in the constitution or the law. The government can fire workers, they aren't entitled to a job with a federal agency

#19 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-03-21 07:08 AM

"Judge Bredar's ruling did not stop the agencies from firing the workers, but took issue with the manner in which it was done."

So there's no issue here actually at all it turns out.

#20 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-03-21 07:10 AM

"The government can fire workers"

That's probably why "Judge Bredar's ruling did not stop the agencies from firing the workers"

Sounds like there are other issues in play here.

Care to discuss them?

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-21 09:07 AM

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