A judge on Thursday suspended a plan by billionaire Elon Musk, which encourages federal workers to leave through a collective purchase to reduce the size of the US government.
The federal judge at Massachusetts ordered a temporary prohibition on the deadline of the plan – midnight on Thursday – was given by Musk for over two million government employees of the country. The proposal was fired into the future with an eight -month salary or risk.
The US media reported that the deadline has now been extended on Monday, when American District Judge George O’Tole will hear the qualities of the case brought by the Labor Unions, the US media said.
The world’s richest person and President Donald Trump’s greatest donor, Musk, is in charge of an independent institution called the Department of Efficiency of the Government (DOGE), the aim of the government.
According to the White House Press Secretary Karolin Levit, more than 40,000 employees have accepted the by -out deal so far – relatively low number.
Unions representing some 800,000 civil servants and Congress Democratic members are opposing the plan and have challenged the validity of dangers to extinguish the fire to civil servants.
But the campaign to cut a comprehensive budget-tramp and their colleagues has severely disrupted the huge departments and agencies run by the anti-government-worker, that for decades, everything has been run from education to national intelligence.
The USAID, the government’s humanitarian aid agency, has become crippled, foreign-based employees ordered the house and the organization’s programs daily and often misrepresented-white house and right-wing media.
A union official confirmed that the global workforce of the agency would be reduced to more than 10,000.
Randy Chester, vice president of the American Foreign Service Association, told reporters, “Finally we have to stop food distribution, as we will not have bodies in the area to ensure that food is actually being distributed.”
Robin Thureston of Democracy Forward, who sued the Trump administration on a large scale trimming in USAID, “the Trump-Wance administration by the Trump-Wance administration to demolish the illegal seizure of this agency in plain violations of basic constitutional principles about the separation of power Gave.”
Trump has also repeatedly said that he wants to shut down the education department. The apostles have been further extended to the CIA to resign.
An official along with the agency managing government property said that the real estate portfolio, the Department of Defense Building Department should be cut off at least 50 percent “.
Levit told reporters that federal workers should “accept a very generous proposal” of a postponed resignation.
He said that “enabled” replacement will be found for those who “want to rip American people.”
Among the controversies around the Kasturi scheme, it is how the South African Tycoon is reaching the secret government data, including the entire payment system of the treasury.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besent on Thursday told Bloomberg TV that “very wrong information” and access to such data was given only to two Treasury employees who are working with musk.
Bessent said that those employees had access to “only and only”, meaning that they could not change the data.
One of them resigned, Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, it was revealed that they had advocated racism and eugenics on social media.
‘Chil’ or Big ‘Con’?
Questions arise on the purchase, including whether Trump has a legal right to propose and whether the conditions will be honored.
The plan was first declared in an email sent to most parts of the huge federal government and was titled “Fork in the Road” – the same phrase that Note Musk sent to employees on Twitter when he has social media in 2022 Bought the platform and changed its name. X.
Musk says that the departure paid “is a chance to take a holiday” while receiving the salary and benefits of his full government, or just to watch movies and cold. ,
Unions have warned that the agreements may be useless without signing the use of federal budget funds without Congress.
“Federal employees should not be misleaded by unannounced billionaires and their shortage,” said Aleret Kelly, president of the Large American Federation of Government Employment (AFGE).
An employee in the US Office of Personnel Management, where Musk holds his employees in major positions, said the plan was to encourage resignation through “nervousness”.
The employee told the AFP, “We are trying to create a nervousness so that people only get out of the door and leave the government in a handicapped state, which is partly their purpose.”
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