{"id":33981,"date":"2025-02-21T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/federal-workers-brace-for-more-firings-after-judge-lifts-block-on-trump-administration-job-cuts-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:03:01","slug":"federal-workers-brace-for-more-firings-after-judge-lifts-block-on-trump-administration-job-cuts-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/federal-workers-brace-for-more-firings-after-judge-lifts-block-on-trump-administration-job-cuts-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal workers brace for more firings after judge lifts block on Trump administration job cuts \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration expected to continue its mass downsizing of the federal workforce amid warnings of unlawful terminations and a \u2018monumental\u2019 bill<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/21\/trump-mass-firings-federal-government-bill\">Mass firings could cause \u2018monumental\u2019 bill, say experts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Republican congressman <strong>Rich McCormick<\/strong>\u2019s Georgia district voted for <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> by a 60% margin last November, but many residents are not pleased with the president allowing the \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d to gut federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/mccormick-confronted-by-angry-crowd-over-support-for-trumps-agenda\/A4FRX7YIUFD2RK7SFTNOKGMDQY\/\">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports<\/a> that McCormick learned this the hard way last night, when he held a very well-attended town hall in which constituents aired their grievances over what they feared were haphazard and damaging cuts to programs that did not deserve to meet such a fate.<\/p>\n<p>The Suwanee Republican\u2019s staff<strong> <\/strong>expected a robust turnout for his first town hall since Trump took office. But they seemed caught off guard by the massive crowd of hundreds that gathered outside Roswell City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees set the tone early, with one accusing McCormick of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bluestein\/status\/1892722541078126651\">doing us a disservice<\/a>\u201d for supporting the budget-slashing initiatives by Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency that have torn through all corners of federal government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/21\/trump-administration-federal-government-politics-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration expected to continue its mass downsizing of the federal workforce amid warnings of unlawful terminations and a \u2018monumental\u2019 bill Mass firings could cause \u2018monumental\u2019 bill, say experts Republican congressman Rich McCormick\u2019s Georgia district voted for Donald Trump by a 60% margin last November, but many residents are not pleased with the president allowing &#8230; <a title=\"Federal workers brace for more firings after judge lifts block on Trump administration job cuts \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/federal-workers-brace-for-more-firings-after-judge-lifts-block-on-trump-administration-job-cuts-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal workers brace for more firings after judge lifts block on Trump administration job cuts \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}