fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks agoJudge temporarily blocks firings by Trump administration during shutdown
The evidence suggests that the office of management and budget, OMB, and the office of personnel management, OPM, have taken advantage of the lapse in government spending, in government functioning to assume that all bets are off, that the laws don't apply to them any more, and that they can impose the structures that they like on the government situation that they don't like.
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