The Trump administration told a federal judge it had given the axe to 24,500 recently hired workers, in the first accounting of the fate of 'probationary' employees.
The government is now rushing to put the workers on leave and find ways to bring them back after the judge ruled that the firings, just part of a massive purge of the bureaucracy, were illegal.
Federal agencies provided data on just how many probationary workers got fired. They are considered easier to fire because they...
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