The Washington State Attorney General’s Office has joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and other federal agencies over the Trump administration’s firing of federal employees.

Mass layoffs at federal agencies have jeopardized internship and employment opportunities for MSU students. For one recent graduate, the layoffs meant losing her dream job.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting temporary relief to a coalition of labor unions and organizations that has sued to stop the Trump administration’s massive dismantling of the federal workforce.

Probationary staff were the first federal workers to be fired as the Trump administration tells agencies to plan for more layoffs.

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The decision is a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to drastically and quickly shrink the federal bureaucracy.

Firing federal employees has been a key to Trump's first month in office, but they barely came up in his speech to Congress.

A workers’ board is reinstating – at least temporarily – almost 6,000 fired probationary workers from the Department of Agriculture, according to a newly issued order obtained by CNN.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate more than 5,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, according to a ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board.