Green Light for Donald Trump and Elon Musk, through the Government Efficiency Department (Doge), to move forward with their plan to reduce the Federal Administration staff with a massive dismissal program and the payment of the payment of the payment of the salary until September those workers who agree to resign and leave their job, according to .
A plan that after prospering the demand presented by several US unions, which have described the initiative collected in one of the executive orders signed by Donald Trump from his return to the White House of “Arbitrary, illegal and hurried ultimatum.” Now, a Massachusetts judge, Judge George A. O’Toole, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1995, has raised that temporary pause, arguing that unions have no legitimacy to act on behalf of the affected workers -they represent more than 800,000 Employees-, in addition to its court lacking jurisdiction in the case. Of course, the ruling is not pronounced on the legality of the program that known as “deferred resignation”, in itself.
The program that has launched the Trump administration aims to encourage voluntary exits before a series of forced layoffs are applied, a process that probably ends in court, especially in the case of workers who belong to a union organization. Most of the personnel working in the Federal Administration of the United States, 2.3 million employeesthey are likely to apply this program, although there are exceptions. Military, postal service employees, national immigration and security service workers, as well as the personnel of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
According to the White House, about 65,000 public administration workers have already accepted the offer, which arrived at the entrance trays of their emails on January 28 with an enigmatic issue “La Crowning”. For many, the decision has been a true headache, convinced that it can be a trap to fire employees without any compensation.
The judicial decision arrives, precisely, one day after Donald Trump signed an executive order for within his administration, which he is questioned about his possible conflicts of interest between his work in the White House and his position as CEO in companies with Millionaire contracts with the same agencies that now tries to dismant 2008.
Until now, chaos and lack of clarity have been the most distinctive signal in the application of this program. Some of the public workers who had already accepted the offer have shown their regret and fear some reprisals. Even departments such as the CIA or defense have received email with the offer to resign, although initially their employees were supposed to be exempt from the cuts.
The Trump administration has tried to present the fired program with a positive tone, suggesting that employees could take this opportunity to travel or look for another job while they were still on the federal payroll. The White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, has described the program as “very generous”, although there are already many workers who speak of condescension and disconnection of reality when they refer to any type of official communication they receive.
While Donald Trump advances in his offensive against bureaucracy, his decrees have been subject to multiple demands. Until now, there have been several federal judges who have blocked some of the approved measures, such as the freezing of federal subsidies and loans, and the attempt to leave 2,220 USAID workers. . However, the survey of the suspension of the Deferred Resignation Program is a triumph for the White House and Trump and Musk’s obsession for reducing the public sector.
