As reported by The Center Square:
Add Wisconsin to the list of states suing the Trump Administration over federal layoffs.
Gov. Tony Evers said the state joined with 19 other Democrat-led states to sue over the firings ordered by President Donald Trump and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency Department.
“Republicans are messing with lives and livelihoods by recklessly firing federal workers and veterans, making drastic guts to popular programs kids, families, seniors, and farmers depend on, and hurting our kids and our schools by threatening to cut the Department of Education – all to help pay for tax cuts for rich millionaires and billionaires,” Evers said in a statement.
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“Our loved ones, friends, and neighbors who have bills to pay and families to feed have been fired for no fault of their own, including veterans, their spouses, and people dedicated to serving our veterans every day, people working to help fight the avian flu, and even people whose jobs are to help keep us safe in dangerous weather,” Evers added in his statement. “Republicans’ actions are wrong, illegal, and bad for our state and our country – that’s why we’re headed to court to try and stop them.”
Maryland’s Democratic attorney general is leading the lawsuit.
“[The] States are suffering significant and irreparable harm caused by the unannounced, unlawful, mass termination of federal employees who work or reside in our jurisdictions. These mass firings were executed illegally, without proper process or the statutorily required notice to [the] States,” the court filing reads. “States are now left to pick up the pieces of the shattered federal workforce – addressing numerous unemployment compensation requests and helping our residents seek new jobs as each new wave of terminations crests. This Court should halt the unlawful firings now.”
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