The new strategy is in part meant to allow supervisors and agency heads to check whether employees’ work fits into the Trump administration’s goals and priorities, according to people familiar with it and records obtained by The Post

A judge on Thursday granted a restraining order against the Office of Personnel Management, saying it illegally ordered thousands of job terminations of certain federal employees and must retract its directives and dealing a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to slim down the government quickly and dramatically.

A federal judge ruled that the terminations at agencies including the Department of Defense were probably illegal.

A Northern California federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from its mass firing of probationary federal employees, a group that represents some of the newest hires. On Thursday,