Advocates praised defense leaders for excluding shipyard workers and other key readiness jobs from a department-wide hiring freeze.
“It’s going to be kind of a disaster,” one military official said about the lack of a full budget, which means more limits on how the Pentagon spends.
Thousands of federal employees could be reinstated to their government jobs following the ruling.
In the last week, department leaders have revised plans to cancel hundreds of contracts in a cost-saving move.
