The US judge temporarily suspended President Donald Trump’s plans to provide incentives for federal workers who would voluntarily resign before midnight on Thursday.
The Federal Judge George O’Tul will be suspended until the Monday hearing can determine the advantages of the lawsuit filed by the federal union, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS.
This proposal is part of the Trump administration’s continuous efforts. Slash the size of the federal government.
The White House said more than 40,000 employees accepted the proposal to resign in exchange for wages by September 30.
This command came a few hours before the deadline for federal workers 23:59 EST (04:59 GMT Friday) to accept transactions.
According to the CBS, the Ministry of Justice said the federal employee will notify the deadline.
In the statement, the White House seemed to be seen as a way to increase the number of resignation.
Karoline Leavitt’s deaths said, “We are grateful to the judge for extending the deadline. Therefore, more federal workers who refuse to attend the office can take over the administration in this lifetime. ”
According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) statement, the agency will continue to resign until the deadline for local time on Monday 23:59.
“This program has not been blocked or canceled. The government will respect the resignation proposal.”
The Trump administration, who had previously hoped for 200,000 people to accept the proposal, told us to the media. They expected to increase in participation Just ahead of the deadline.
Karoline Leavitt, a White House reporter, told reporters outside the White House’s Westwing before the judge pause the program, “I will save tens of millions of dollars.”
The union, the US Civil Service Union, filed a lawsuit against OPM and violated the law, and claimed that it could not support the transaction and granted a conflicting guideline for that condition.
The union told the members’ e -mail that the proposal was part of the efforts to dismantle the civil servants and replace the professional professional manpower into a political nomination and for -profit contractor.
The Union argued that the Congress did not pass the funding budget other than the mid -March, and it was unclear whether the agency could pay the worker by September.
The union said it was “happy” by the judge’s actions.
“We continue to believe that this program violates the law, and we will continue to defend our membership aggressively.”
Some federal employees say that the purchase proposal provided in the form of a late -night email with the title “Fork on the Road” was shocked. They were worried about the unanswered questions and its legitimacy, which had already accumulated uncertainty at the busy start of Trump’s second term.
“The tone of the early email was like ‘you can cut it anyway.’
Some employees thought that emails were spam because they started from typical government communication. Some departments had to check the authenticity to employees.
The Democratic Party questioned the legitimacy of the resignation package and warned that it would lead to “brain drainage” that would be “all Americans will feel.”
“If many federal employees do not have the expertise and institutional knowledge of their work, the Korean government will not be able to effectively respond to national emergencies, serve the US public, or carry out everyday operations,” Is written. A letter to President Trump.
On Tuesday, the Central Intelligence Agency became the first national security department to extend the proposal to employees. Former US intelligence officials and some lawmakers have raised concerns that this proposal can undermine the US national security priorities.
Some reports that the Trump administration’s government efficiency (DOGE) is aiming for the National Maritime Care Service.
US government agencies manage fishing and protection for weather forecasts, monitoring conditions for marine and atmosphere, and endangered marine life. It operates a National Weather Center that predicts offices in cities and states across the United States and helps to predict everything from tornado to hurricane.
Those who work at the Doge led by billionaire Elon Musk were at the NOAA office and the staff were expecting budget and employee reduction, CBS said.
