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Judge Freezes Trump’s Buyout Offer for Federal Workers

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Trump, who returned to the presidency on January 20, has accused the federal workforce of undercutting his agenda during his first term in office, from 2017-2021. A union that represents CFPB workers has filed a lawsuit seeking to block Vought’s actions, one of several legal challenges that Trump’s administration now faces.

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Trump quietly claimed a power even King George wasn’t allowed to have

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In 1838, the US Supreme Court ruled that the president does not have dispensing power — a ruling that modern legal scholars across the political spectrum treat as obviously correct. The Bondi letters have gotten virtually no attention outside of dedicated legal blogs and podcasts.

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Cancel the grizzly bear

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And so in 1975, the US Fish and Wildlife Service placed grizzly bears on the endangered species list, the country’s most powerful legal mechanism to stave off extinction. And when we cut them off, their population tanked. The grizzly’s place on the list afforded them some important protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Elon Musk And Vivek Ramaswamy Push To End Remote Work In Federal Government

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The DOGE team will also look for opportunities for cuts across federal agencies, with Ramaswamy taking the lead on crafting the legal basis for these proposals. Instead, a longer-term plan for government efficiency is expected to emerge, incorporating recommendations from previous government reports and commissions.

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UK Government set to ditch ‘right to switch off’ and make concessions on other employment rights

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The government is set to abandon plans to introduce a legal right for employees to switch off outside working hours, in a move aimed at easing the burden of Labours employment reforms on businesses. Currently, there is no legal limit on probation periods, and new hires can be dismissed with just one weeks notice.

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Rethinking the ROI of Healthcare Coverage with Robert E. Andrews

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So some of our members have created almost like a buddy system where periodically employee number one checks in with employee number two, not for some grave agenda, but. But one of the things that we’ve gotten used to and we encourage and actually discuss this is we break meetings and agendas for meetings really into three parts.

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Economists Issue Stark Warning: Trump’s Deportation Agenda Could Cost U.S. Economy $94 Billion A Year, Gutting American Workforce

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Trump’s immigration crackdown Immigration has been the cornerstone of the Trump administration’s policy agenda, with the president on day one of his second term vowing to crack down on undocumented migrants to the U.S. The post Economists Issue Stark Warning: Trump’s Deportation Agenda Could Cost U.S.

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