Judge orders Donald Trump to rehire thousands of employees fired for ‘poor performance’ by him and Elon Musk

 

President Donald Trump has received an order by a US District Court judge to rehire thousands of federal workers he axed on the grounds of a ‘lie’.

speaking in court today (March 13), Alsup said of the firing of probationary workers: “It is sad, a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie.”

Many of those that lost their jobs discovered that the cited reason they were axed was on the grounds of poor performance, despite receiving good performance evaluations from their bosses prior to the cut.

It isn’t the first ruling Alsup has passed on the topic as on February 27, he said that the firing was illegal because the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) did not have the authority to order the sackings.

After firing thousands of employees, the OPM then amended a January 20 memo on probationary employees.

The American Federation of Government Employees claimed this was the OPM’s admission to having acted unlawfully.

The union issued a statement on the matter earlier this month, it read in part: “OPM’s revision of its Jan 20 memo is a clear admission that it unlawfully directed federal agencies to carry out mass terminations of probationary employees – which aligns with Judge Alsup’s recent decision in our lawsuit challenging these illegal firings.

“Every agency should immediately rescind these unlawful terminations and reinstate everyone who was illegally fired.”

It comes as a federal judge ordered DOGE to reveal its government plan and identify all employees.