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| | | | | The Trump administration started laying off 466 Education Department staffers on Friday amid mass firings across the government meant to pressure Democratic lawmakers over the federal shutdown. | |
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| | | | | The justices overruled a lower court that had paused the Trump administration's plan to fire over 1,300 workers. | |
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| | | | | Learn more about the Heritage Project initiative that threatens to erode our democracy - and how to fight it at ACLU.org. | |
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| | | Some Education Department employees were deemed essential, so colleges and universities will see little change once the government reopens. Policy experts are less confident that laid-off employees will be able to return to work. The House of Representatives passed a legislative package Wednesday evening in a 222-209 vote, putting Congress one step closer to ending the federal government's longest shutdown in history. President Donald Trump signed the legislation, which first passed the Senate on Sunday, into law late Wednesday night. | ||
