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US judge rules that Trump plan to halve FEMA workforce violated law

By Reuters
September 13, 2026
US President Donald Trump pictured at Farmleigh House in Dublin, Ireland, September 12, 2026. — Reuters
US President Donald Trump pictured at Farmleigh House in Dublin, Ireland, September 12, 2026. — Reuters

WASHINGTON: A U.S. judge has ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce in half. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco in a decision issued late Friday, said the U.S.