Trump administration reinstating nearly 25,000 fired federal workers

US President Donald Trump's administration is working to bring back nearly 25,000 fired federal workers after judges ruled their terminations were illegal, court documents show.

Officials at 18 departments and agencies have submitted documents to a federal court detailing their efforts to rehire the laid off probationary workers to comply with the court orders.

Last week, two federal judges said the mass layoffs of the recently hired workers was illegal and ordered them to be reinstated pending further litigation.

The firings were part of Trump's efforts to slash the federal workforce, assisted by billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).