Judge rules Trump administration can move ahead with mass government layoffs

Donald Trump ran his campaign on promises to clean up America.

He was going to tighten up our federal budget, he was going to fix our southern porous border, and he was going to drain the swamp.

It's been clear from the first moment he stepped back into the White House that Trump was intent on keeping those promises, but some people have been fighting against him every step of the way.

For example, when it comes to Trump's plan to drastically reduce the federal workforce, government employee unions have not been happy.

A group of them recently requested that Trump's plans to make the government more efficient be blocked.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper was having none of it.

He ruled that federal law mandates the unions must go through the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) instead of a federal court.

That doesn't mean Cooper agrees with everything Trump has been doing.

"The first month of President Trump’s second administration has been defined by an onslaught of executive actions that have caused, some say by design, disruption and even chaos in widespread quarters of American society," Cooper wrote.

"Affected citizens and their advocates have challenged many of these actions on an emergency basis in this Court and others across the country," he continued. "Certain of the President’s actions have been temporarily halted; others have been permitted to proceed, at least for the time being. These mixed results should surprise no one."