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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

US judge rules that Trump plan to halve FEMA workforce violated law

A U.S. judge has ruled that the Trump administration ​broke the law by ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce in half.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco in a decision issued late Friday, said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully by usurping FEMA's authority over its own personnel ‌and steering the ⁠agency to ⁠cut thousands of disaster-response jobs.

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