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Ban unions from government. Conflict of interest.

A coalition of nearly two dozen unions, local governments and nonprofit
groups filed suit against the Trump administration in federal court
Monday, alleging that it’s in the midst of a broad, unconstitutional and secretive reorganization of the federal government.

The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, specifically challenges the actions various federal officials
have taken in response to an executive order President Trump issued in
February that called for a governmentwide “workforce optimization” led by
the Department of Government Efficiency.

In that order, Trump told agency heads to start preparing large-scale reductions in force along with agency reorganization plans that were due
to the White House 30 days after the EO’s issuance on Feb. 11.

The plaintiffs claim that even though those reorganization plans have not
been made available to the public or the unions who represent federal
workers, agencies have nonetheless begun implementing a “radical
transformation and downsizing of the federal government” without the legal authority to do so.

Alleged constitutional violation
The order “does not simply suggest or encourage agencies to exercise their
own statutory authority to effectuate a government-wide reorganization: it orders them to act according to the president’s vision, regardless of that statutory authority,” the complaint alleges. “At no point has Congress authorized President Trump’s actions with respect to the federal agencies
that Congress created in an exercise of its Article I legislative
authority, which the Constitution grants to Congress, not to the
president.”

Although other lawsuits have challenged the administration’s unilateral dismantling of individual agencies such as USAID, and others have
contested decisions to fire federal workers en-masse, the suit is among
the first to challenge the constitutionality of the White House and DOGE’s broader efforts to downsize the government writ large.

The plaintiffs contend that in addition to usurping Congress’s power to establish and disestablish agencies, the administration’s actions violate federal statutes including “arbitrary and capricious” violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, claiming that DOGE, the Office of Management
and Budget and Office of Personnel Management have no authority to order agencies to eliminate programs or RIF employees.

“The impacted agencies themselves do not have the authority to do the president’s unconstitutional bidding, under the terms set by the president rather than by Congress,” they wrote in Monday’s complaint. “Over and
over, newly appointed agency heads have explained that they are
reorganizing, eliminating programs, and cutting thousands upon thousands
of jobs, because the president directed them to and because DOGE told them
how much and what to cut.”

Among the plaintiffs in the new lawsuit are the American Federation of Government Employees, the Service Employees International Union, the
Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, Vote Vets, and several
local governments, including the cities of Baltimore and Chicago and King County (Washington) and Santa Clara County (California).

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/04/unions-cities- nonprofits-challenge-constitutionality-of-trumps-government-
reorganization/

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