The largest federal employee union has filed a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump and the Social Security Administration of using a federal labor agency to implement three executive orders making changes to the civil service system after a judge had ruled the orders were invalid.

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) in a complaint in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday said a May decision by the Federal Service Impasse Panel (FSIP) allowing the SSA to impose provisions of the 2018 executive orders was arbitrary and capricious, in violation of federal law.

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