A federal judge temporarily halted President Trump's 'Fork in the Road' program, which aimed to incentivize over two million federal workers to resign. The program offered full salary and benefits through September for employees who resigned by February 6. The judge extended the deadline to at least Monday, pending a hearing on the legality of the offer. Labor unions challenged the program, arguing it violated the Administrative Procedures Act and lacked clear funding and implementation details.
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's 'Fork in the Road' initiative to incentivize more than two million federal workers to resign as part of an effort to slash the bureaucratic workforce.The ContextThe Trump administration has aggressively worked to trim down the federal bureaucracy since Trump took office, in coordination with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
The American Federation of Government Employees said in its lawsuit that OPM violated the Administrative Procedures Act by rolling out the deferred resignation offer without clarifying if it has the funding for it or how it will be structured and implemented.
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