Judge Lifts Block On Buyouts For Federal Workers

The Washington Post reports:

A federal judge on Wednesday lifted his pause on the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, a win for President Donald Trump as he pushes to shrink the federal workforce. The program — which encourages federal workers to resign with the promise of pay through September — had been halted since last Thursday, when U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole temporarily stopped the Office of Personnel Management from moving ahead.

Unions representing more than 800,000 federal workers had filed a lawsuit to stop the program, calling it an “arbitrary, unlawful, short-fused ultimatum.” In his ruling, O’Toole Jr. wrote that the unions’ lawsuit could not succeed because they lacked standing to sue and because his court lacked jurisdiction. Some 65,000 workers have reportedly already accepted the deal, according to the White House.

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New: A judge dissolves his order blocking Trump’s federal employee buyout offer from moving ahead.

The judge rules the plaintiffs don’t have standing and the court has no jurisdiction.

(However, a new lawsuit challenging the buyouts was just filed)

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