Ahead of Fri’s court hearing on Thur’s #job cuts at the #CFPB, the #union repping the bureau’s staff countered w/their own legal filings that said the #MassFiring would make it impossible to perform the agency’s required tasks. E.G., the agency said that it was cutting the Office #Consumer Response, which expects to handle 5M complaints this year, to 20 workers down from 149. The office’s chief of staff…said…that “the office will be incapable of performing its statutory duties”….

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Emails Reveal Top #IRS Lawyer Warned #Trump Firings Were a #Fraud on the Courts

The Trump admin cited “performance” failures to justify its #MassFiring of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the admin had not conducted any such performance assessment.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts

The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment.

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