A federal judge on Tuesday extended a temporary order blocking the Trump administration's plans to fire thousands of federal employees during the government shutdown .

The order, called a preliminary injunction, prohibits the administration from issuing reduction-in-force, or RIF, notices until the government reopens, Judge Susan Illston said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

Illston had imposed a short-term firing freeze, known as a temporary restraining order or TRO, on Oct. 15.

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, one of the labor-union plaintiffs in the lawsuit, praised the judge's latest order.

"Today's ruling is another victory for federal workers and our ongoing efforts to protect their jobs from an administration hellbe

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