Donald Trump’s 2nd term live updates: More executive action planned amid Day 1 fallout

In the hours after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, filed a lawsuit against Trump and the Office of Management and Budget, while also calling on Congress to protect government workers’ jobs.

The lawsuit alleges that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).

“DOGE has already begun developing recommendations and influencing decision-making in the new administration, even though its membership lacks the reasonable balance required by FACA and its meetings and records are not open to real-time public inspection,” the complaint alleges.

AFGE National President Everett Kelley is also torn over Trump’s flurry of executive orders to eliminate federal telecommuting and diversity programs, to freeze federal hiring and to reinstate a hiring policy that would make it easier to fire some federal employees.

Kelley asked Congress to step in to save federal workers from being fired at will.

“AFGE will not stand idly by as a secretive group of ultra-wealthy individuals with major conflicts of interest trying to deregulate themselves and give their own companies sweetheart government contracts while firing government officials and dismantling the institutions designed to serve the American people,” Kelley said in a statement.

He added: “This fight is about fairness, accountability and the integrity of our government. Federal employees are not the problem – they are the solution. They deserve to have their voices heard in decisions that affect their work, their agencies and the public, they servant.”

-ABC News’ Beatrice Peterson