CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs ‘unlawful’

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March 18, 2025, 3:57 PM

• •A federal court has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate more than 130 former employees of the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency.
• •The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) fired the employees in February as part of the Trump administration’s broad push to slash the federal workforce.
• •CISA is now seeking to contact the since-fired employees, according to a message displayed on CISA’s website.

The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate workers it “unlawfully” fired.

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