The Trump administration can reduce the size of the federal workforce, but it has to follow the rules while it’s doing so, according to retired Judge Andrew Napolitano on Newsmax on Friday.

“There’s a federal statute that the government has to [use] when it wants to reduce its force to give people time to find new jobs,” Napolitano said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “That statute says give them 45-days notice.”

Federal Judge William Alsup, while ordering the administration to reinstate workers in the Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, and Interior departments, said the administration’s claims of laying off workers based on “poor performance” was instead “a sham in order to try to avoid statutory requirements.”

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