Breaking News: Trump can remove federal watchdog who fought to reinstate thousands of fired workers, appeals court rules

Trump can remove federal watchdog who fought to reinstate thousands of fired workers, appeals court rules
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Trump can remove federal watchdog who fought to reinstate thousands of fired workers, appeals court rules

A federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump to fire an official who investigates complaints from the federal workforce, lifting a lower court's injunction that barred Trump from removing Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger.

The Justice Department argued that Dellinger's continued work as a federal ethics watchdog was undermining Trump's agenda. In particular, Dellinger has spearheaded a recent effort to reinstate thousands of probationary workers who were fired amid Trump's overhaul of the federal bureaucracy.

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