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Another Court put the brakes on the Trump-DOGE Effort to Fire Federal Workers [1]
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Date: 2025-02-06
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The wheels of Justice have just slammed the brakes on the DOGE take-over of the OPM (the Personnel Dept of the Federal Government).
And just in the nick of time too. Putting unnecessary years of stress on the affected public servants, whose livelihoods and important work, still hangs in the balance.
Judge pauses deadline for federal workers to accept Trump’s resignation offer
CNN — Feb 6, 2025
A federal judge paused Thursday’s deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer while more proceedings on the program’s legality play out. The government will send a notice to the employees informing them that Thursday’s deadline is on hold. Before the judge’s ruling, eligible federal workers had until 11:59 p.m. ET on Thursday to decide whether to take the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer, which will generally allow them to leave their jobs but be paid through the end of September. The pause stems from a lawsuit that the American Federation of Government Employees and several other unions filed in US District Court in Massachusetts on Tuesday seeking a temporary restraining order to halt the February 6 deadline. The unions also want to “require the government to articulate a policy that is lawful, rather than an arbitrary, unlawful, short-fused ultimatum which workers may not be able to enforce.”
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Non-partisan federal workers, for the moment, have a reprieve from the rash illegal mass firing that the Trump-Musk-Project 2025 Alliance was attempting rush through — before the nation noticed.
Given that the Unions sued less than a week ago — that’s a fairly quick response from the court system. And something that will definitively be worth watching.
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