The US judge temporarily stopped the plan of President Donald Trump, who offers incentives to federal workers to voluntarily resign before the deadline at midnight.
Federal judge George O’Toole Jr said the plan would stop until hearing on Monday, when he could determine the merits of the lawsuit filed by the federal employee unions, reports CBS, US partner BBC.
The offer is part of the constant effort of Trump’s administration Reduce the size of the federal government.
The White House says that more than 40,000 employees have accepted the offer to resign in exchange for salary until September 30 – although some have expressed confusion regarding the terms of the agreement.
The order came a few hours before Thursday 23:59 ET (04:59 GMT Friday) The deadline for federal workers to accept the agreement.
The lawyer of the Ministry of Justice said that the Office for Managing Staff of the White House would inform the federal employees that the deadline had stopped, CBS reported.
The White House, in a statement, seemed temporarily stopped as a way of increasing the number of resignation by extending the deadline.
“We are grateful to the judge for expanding the deadline, so that more federal workers who refuse to appear in the office can be raised to this very generous offer, once in a lifetime,” Karolina Leavitt said in analysis secretary.
OPM official said the Agency would continue to resignation until hearing on Monday.
Trump’s administration, who said earlier that he hoped as many as 200,000 people would accept his offer, told us Were expected to jump in participating Just in front of the deadline.
“We expect the number to increase,” Leavitt told reporters outside the West Wing before the judge stopped at the program. “The US people will save tens of millions of dollars.”
Leavitt added that the administration encourages workers to “accept a very generous offer.”
“If they do not want to appear in the office, if they want to shake American people, then they are welcome to buy themselves, and we will find very competent individuals who want to fulfill these roles,” she said.
An analysis of federal workforce by a non -profit partnership for public service has found that the annual exhaustion rate among federal employees is usually about 6%.
The US Federation of Government Employees, the Alliance, has filed a lawsuit against the White House Staff Management Office, claiming that he has violated the law, that he cannot finance the agreement and that he has given conflicting guidelines on his terms.
AFge previously warned his members “not to leave or answer” the White House’s resignation package.
The union said in the e-mail that the offer was part of “the effort to remove the civil service and replace the qualified, professional workforce with unskilled political named and profit performers.”
The union noted that the Congress did not adopt the funding budget after mid -March, claiming that it was not clear whether agencies could pay workers by September.
“There is no evidence yet that the administration may or will support its end, that the Congress will go along with this unilateral mass restructuring, or that in this way, appropriate means, among other questions, can be used,” AFGE said.
Some federal employees said that the redemption proposal – was delivered in the form of E – in late -night with the “Fork in the Road” line – came as a shock. They said that they were taken care of by irresponsible issues with the procedure and his law, which accumulated with uncertainty the already hectic beginning of Trump’s second term.
“The tone of the initial E -šte was like” Maybe you are already cut “,” Monet Hepp, an expert on medical support at the US Veterans’ Department, for the BBC. “People blinded him.”
Some employees thought the E -firm was an unwanted post office, because it was a deviation from typical government communications, which is why they initially deleted it.
“I want to confirm that this is a legitimate communication from the OPM,” wrote the Public Relations Officer in the Veterans Questions Department, UE -Poruci who sent employees and shared with the BBC.
Democrats have questioned the legality of the packet of resignation and warned that they would lead to “brain outflows” that “will” feel every American “.
“Without expertise and institutional knowledge that so many federal employees brings to its work, our government will be incapable of responding effectively to national emergency cases, serving the US public or even performing routine operations,” Democrats wrote in the House of Home in the letter to the President Trump.
On Tuesday, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) became the first department of national security to expand the offer to its staff, saying the whole workforce that they could stop and get about eight months of salaries and fees.
Former US intelligence officials and several lawmakers have expressed concern that this offer could undermine US national security priorities.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, Vice President of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned CIA employees not to take over the offer.
“There are few government agencies more important for our national security than CIA,” Warner said in a statement.
“There are many federal employees, including the CIA, my voters, and I warned them that these ‘buy’ empty promises, because Congress had not approved the money for it.”
There are also reports that Trump’s administration of the Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge) targets the national administration of the ocean and atmosphere.
The US Government Agency is tasked with weather forecasts, monitoring conditions in the ocean and atmosphere and managing fishing and protection for endangered marine life.
It runs several agencies, including a national time center – which predicts offices in cities and countries across the US -Ai helps predict everything from Tornado to Hurricane.
Those who work for Dogea, which runs a billionaire Elon Musk have been in Noah’s offices, and employees were told to expect his budget and half of the workforce to be reduced, CBS sources said.
Sen Chris van Hollenwho represents Maryland – where Noah is headquartered, he said his office explored the reported cuts.
“Noah is vital for weather forecasts, scientific research and more,” he said. “Their critical work saves lives.”
