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Description: At least 9,000 probationary workers could return to their federal departments and agencies after two judges ordered the Trump administration to reverse its mass firings. For more on the decision, NTD speaks to John Malcolm, vice president of the Institute for Constitutional Government at the Heritage Foundation.

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