A U.S. judge has ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce in half. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco in a decision issued late Friday said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully by usurping FEMA's authority over its own personnel and steering the agency to cut thousands of disaster-response jobs. While FEMA is part of DHS, a federal law adopted after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 says the department "may not substantially or significantly reduce (FEMA's) authorities, responsibilities, or functions.
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