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SCOTUS clears the way for Trump to fire thousands of federal workers.

Doge finds an astounding number of immigrants on

Medicaid and voter rolls, and the Florida Gators chop the Houston Cougars in the NCAA basketball

championship. I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, April 8th,

and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. The Trump administration gets another big legal win after the Supreme Court clears the way for

the president to fire thousands of probationary federal workers. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has

the latest. The nation's highest court granted an emergency stay and halted the reinstatement

of over 16,000 probationary federal workers that were let go since Trump took office.

The justices ruled today that the nine nonprofit groups that challenged the firings lacked legal standing.

Justices, so did Mayor and Jackson, dissented. The decision blocks a lower court's order that the government rehire the workers,

many of whom were dismissed without the full protections granted to permanent federal employees. Plaintiffs argued that the mass terminations disrupted

critical services at agencies like Veterans Affairs and the Forest Service. Government lawyers

warned that the reinstatement would create chaos across agencies and maintain the cuts

were performance-based. Markets initially rallied today after several extremely rocky days,

but the major stock indexes have since fallen back to their opening numbers.

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