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Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration's shutdown layoffs

A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily halted the Trump administration from laying off federal workers during the shutdown, concluding that the administration likely acted illegally.

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Andrea Hsu is NPR's labor and workplace correspondent.
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