A coalition of labor, environmental groups and local governments are suing the Trump administration over its moves to dramatically reshape the executive branch.
In their complaint filed Monday in a federal court in California, the groups contend that President Donald Trump is attempting an “unconstitutional dismantling of the federal government” on a scale “unprecedented in this country’s history and in clear excess of his authority.”
The groups suing the administration include the American Federation of Government Employees; the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees; the Natural Resources Defense Council; the American Public Health Association; and the cities of San Francisco, Chicago and Baltimore.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is one of many that have been filed challenging the Trump administration’s early maneuvers to slash the size of the federal workforce and broadly overhaul the government. The administration says its moves are part of a “critical transformation of the federal bureaucracy” that aims to slash “waste, bloat, and insularity” throughout the executive branch.
