Hundreds of federal health workers, including doctors in senior leadership positions, began hearing early Tuesday morning that they are losing their jobs, part of a vast restructuring that will winnow down the agencies.

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NEW: Donald Trump's effort to gut foreign aid programs and sideline thousands of USAID workers have now both been halted — at least temporarily — by judges who say the rush to implement them may have violated laws.

w/ @joshgerstein

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“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Recipient of two bronze stars and a Chief Justice Roberts clerk.

NEW: A federal appeals court turned down the Trump administration’s emergency budget to resume its broad freeze on spending.

It’s the first significant appeals court decision of his new presidency.

w/ @joshgerstein

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NEW: A federal judge (GW Bush appointee) ruled that the Trump administration’s abrupt removal of public health websites with information relied on by doctors may have violated laws and regulations.

He ordered them restored by midnight.

w/ Lauren Gardner

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Federal employee with a data role told me that a document was removed from employee access because it had the word "inclusion" in it.

As in, "inclusion of data in our estimates."

“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Warren: "My view right now is the courts are where we are hanging on to our constitutional structure. They still have the power to hold everybody else in this country in contempt if they do not follow lawfully issued court orders."

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Bates is not really buying the Trump administration's argument on its decision to pull down public health websites without notice, a move that some doctors say is impeding their ability to provide care.

He is expected to rule soon on restraining order soon.

JUST IN: The Trump administration is asking an apepals court for an emergency order to permit it to reinstate limits on federal spending it says were improperly blocked by a federal judge in Rhode Island, calling it "intolerable judicial overreach." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The way an executive branch that respects the rule of law objects to a district court ruling it doesn’t like is to *appeal* it, not to imply that the ruling just shouldn’t be followed.

NEW: A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration was violating his order to lift the blanket spending freeze on federal programs, ordering immediate release of funds and hinting at possibility of contempt.

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BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs.

He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...