A federal judge has ordered on Monday to extend the pause on the deadline that Donald Trump’s administration had given federal workers to accept their incentive low plan. The US president had offered the officials seven months of salary until September if they renounced voluntarily before midnight last Thursday. If they did not, they were exposed to being fired in the midst of the dismantling of the government structures that Elon Musk, Trump’s right hand and leader of the Doge Working Group (Department of Government Efficiency, for its acronym in English).
The magistrate had already stopped the deadline on Thursday of last week and had set a audience for a decision for Monday at noon. Now, Judge George O’Toole has decided that the paralysis of the plan will continue in force waiting for new judicial procedures to determine whether the offer made by the president complies with the current legality.
One of the main factors that had aroused the discomfort among the officials was precisely that it was not clear if Trump really had the authority to make this type of proposals.
The workers were informed of the offer last week, having only nine days to make a decision on a proposal whose legality is not yet clear. During these days, officials received constant pressures in the form of emails to accept the offer under the threat of being able to be fired later.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed that, before Thursday, more than 400,000 officials had already accepted the president’s offer.
The Trump administration offer is another movement in the cuts campaign that Elon Musk is leading within the federal agencies and intended to pave the path to his right hand. Dismissing an official is not so easy, so, if the employees accepted the offer, Musk and his work group Doge would save months of legal confrontations.
Three unions that represent more than 800,000 federal workers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday asking for a temporary restriction order to stop the term of the proposal, qualifying the offer of “arbitrary, illegal ultimatum and with a too short deadline.”
At the same time, Judge John McConnell, who had ordered Trump at the end of January undo the freezing of federal funds for social programs, denounced on Monday that there is evidence that there are still federal subsidies and loans that continue to be suspended. Therefore, the magistrate has ordered the Executive to release all the funds.
At the time, Trump announced the paralysis of federal aid to be able to review whether the federal expenditure was adjusted to his agenda. The retention of the funds unleashed chaos at all administrative levels, since thousands of homes depend on them.
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