The Trump-backed cuts come on top of thousands more employees who accepted controversial buyouts promoted by billionaire first buddy Elon Musk.

A federal judge in Maryland says he will extend a temporary order requiring the Trump administration to bring back federal workers who were fired as the president seeks to dramatically downsize the federal workforce.

President Donald Trump's administration in court filings has for the first time acknowledged it fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers, and said federal agencies were working to bring all of them back after a judge ruled their terminations were likely illegal.

The Trump administration appears to be preparing to comply with multiple court orders to quickly place tens of thousands of federal workers fired during their probationary periods, according to officials at three agencies briefed on the plans.

Sam Peterson is one of thousands of fired federal workers who was offered his job back under a judge’s order, but he didn’t jump at the chance to go back to his park ranger position at Washington state’s Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.

The judge said he needed more time to determine whether a longer-term halt should apply to the entire country or be restricted to certain states while the case proceeds.

A federal judge has admitted that he made a mistake in refusing to hear a case taken by thousands of federal workers fired by President Donald Trump. Newsweek sought email comment on Tuesday from AFL-CIO and the office of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The Trump administration Monday asked the Supreme Court to block an order forcing the government to rehire thousands of workers fired as part of President Trump’s effort to drastically reduce the size of the federal workforce.