The war against the federal workforce continues for Marketplace. I'm Sabri Beneshore in for David Brancaccio.

Two federal judges now have ordered the Trump administration to rehire fired federal workers who were on probation.

The judges say the White House didn't have the authority for mass layoffs and didn't follow the law.

But there have been other

developments for the federal workforce. Marketplaces, Nancy Marshall-Genzor joins us to talk about them.

Hi, Nancy. Good morning. So let's talk about the post office first. Postmaster General

Louis DeJoy says he has signed an agreement with Elon Musk's Doge. What is that all about?

Yeah, DeJoy sent a letter to Congress about this yesterday. He says Doge will help the Postal Service identify further efficiencies,

adding that Doge has been, quote, gracious enough to ask for the big problems they can help with.

And DeJoy says he's already reduced positions at Postal Service headquarters

by 20 percent and plans to cut another 10,000 workers overall in the next 30 days through a

voluntary early retirement program. The Trump administration is also cutting workers who are not

actually paid directly by taxpayers. What is going on there?

Yes, some of these workers are at the Food and Drug Administration. Roiders is reporting the

salaries of most of one group of about 200 fired FDA workers were actually paid through

user fees from medical device makers.

Yeah, no savings there. So also speaking to the FDA, how's their office space situation?

Not good, apparently. The FDA's headquarters is in Silver Spring, Maryland. Some FDA workers

told Reuters they haven't been guaranteed parking or office space,

and this all comes as Doge says it's terminated more than 700 leases overall for federal office space,

including 30 FDA locations. All right. Thanks, Nancy. You're welcome. In our latest series, Unlocking the Gates, Marketplace Special Correspondent Lee Hawkins

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