The largest union representing U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to block President Donald Trump's plan to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers and make it easier to fire them.
The American Federation of Government Employees, in a lawsuit in Washington, D.C. federal court, said Trump lacks the power to strip federal employees of protections against being fired at will without adopting a formal rule.
Trump's Jan. 20 executive order exempts positions "of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character" from the protections enjoyed by career civil servants.
The order was one of several efforts to overhaul the federal government since Trump took office on Jan. 20.
