President Donald Trump said it’s “ridiculous” that a federal judge ruled that the government must rehire fired government employees.
“I don’t think that’s going to be happening, but we’ll have to see,” he told The Daily Signal aboard Air Force One on Sunday.
A judge appointed by President Bill Clinton ruled Thursday that the Trump administration must reinstate some fired probationary government employees.
He ruled that six agencies must give jobs back to thousands of recently hired employees who President Donald Trump fired in an effort to eliminate “waste, fraud, and abuse” from the federal government by cutting the federal workforce.
“I think it’s absolutely ridiculous, absolutely, it’s a judge that’s putting himself in the position of the president of the United States, who was elected by close to 80 million votes,” Trump…
