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Trump administration notified roughly 4,100 federal employees last week they were being laid off amid a lapse in government funding

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A federal judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the government shutdown Wednesday, saying the government had “taken advantage” of the lapse in funding to conduct them.