A federal judge ordered a two-week pause, writing that a president must enlist the help of Congress “to make large-scale overhauls of federal agencies.”

The Trump administration must temporarily cease from engaging in widespread layoffs and firings for government workers, a California federal court ruled Friday.

A judge seemed to agree with the National Treasury Employees Union that Trump's March executive order eliminating bargaining at more than a dozen federal agencies was an act of retaliation.