Watchdog Bars Staff from Investigating Federal Staff Firings (2)

April 22, 2025, 2:09 PM UTCUpdated: April 22, 2025, 7:26 PM UTC

The new head of a federal watchdog tasked with protecting federal workers’ rights ordered staff to halt investigations into the Trump administration’s firings, according to memos obtained by Bloomberg Law.

Investigators and prosecutors at the Office of the Special Counsel, which prosecutes violations of civil service laws, should not communicate with federal agencies about dismissed employees, according to a memo Acting Special Counsel Jamieson Greer sent to the office’s staff on April 3.

The order shuts down a key avenue for federal workers to challenge President Donald Trump‘s cuts to the public workforce.

Federal workers can file a ...

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