From the Washington Post (by Sheria Smith and Brittany Coleman of AFGE Local 252)
Three months ago, on March 11, we were laid off from our positions as civil rights attorneys for the Education Department by the education secretary and U.S. DOGE Service. But it wasn’t just the two of us — roughly 1,400 of our colleagues working across the department were laid off as part of a nearly 50 percent reduction-in-force order from the Trump administration.
Starting June 9, we were supposed to be officially terminated from our roles as federal employees. But that isn’t happening. Instead, we’re caught in legal limbo, unable to do vital work while judges sort through the White House’s legally absurd attempt to shut down the department. It’s an outrageous waste of time and money while we wait for the courts to put an end to this destructive exercise.
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