In its effort to slash the federal workforce and save funds, the Trump administration could bleed cash defending its moves in court.
The new administration’s bids to force out employees at agencies like EPA and the Department of Energy mirror plans executed by Elon Musk during his takeover of Twitter — now known as X — which are currently subject to more than a dozen lawsuits in courts across the country, including several class-action cases.
And because Musk — whom President Donald Trump has tapped to help him gut the U.S. government — is now dealing with the public sector, the administration’s staff-cutting measures will bump up against a panoply of special protections for federal workers.
“It is costing a fortune to defend against them,” Shannon Liss-Riordan, an attorney representing former Twitter employees in a class-action lawsuit, said of Musk’s legal challenges stemming from his takeover of the social media network.
