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A federal judge has indefinitely stopped the Trump administration from firing federal workers amid the ongoing government shutdown.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston granted a preliminary injunction that banned the layoffs while a lawsuit filed by the federal employee unions challenging the layoffs is pending.

During a Tuesday hearing in San Francisco, Illston banned almost 40 federal agencies from conducting layoffs.

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Federal employee unions, including the American Federation of Government Employees, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration contending that the layoffs are unlawful and enforcing layoffs and that the current funding lapse does not justify huge job cuts because

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