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• As Trump promises shutdown layoffs, fights over previous layoffs stall due to shutdown - October 3, 2025

• Employees involved in litigation are caught up in furloughs, though group says Trump is seeking to delay accountability.

  Eric Katz, Government Executive

  The Trump administration is continuing to promise widespread layoffs across the federal workforce as a result of the government shutdown, even as employees previously impacted by mandatory staffing cuts are still fighting back against their terminations.

  The White House has said the new round of shutdown layoffs will hit in the coming days. In the meantime, the effort to rollback the previous layoffs are running into a new obstacle: the Justice Department attorneys litigating the cases in federal court are furloughed due to the shutdown. 

  As a result, the Trump administration has asked in multiple cases for a delay in proceedings. A group of states suing the Education Department over its layoffs—which the Supreme Court has, for now, allowed to move forward—has agreed to an administrative stay on the case, and the judge has signed off on the pause. 

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