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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