Trump’s Federal Employee Buyout Plan Temporarily Blocked By Judge
President Donald Trump’s plan to buyout federal employees has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge until at least Monday. According to ABC News , the Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency…
President Donald Trump’s plan to buyout Federal employees has been temporarily blocked by a Federal Judge until at least Monday.
According to ABC News, the Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), overseen by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, will be unable to implement their “Fork in the Road” federal employee buyout offer, after U.S. District Judge George O’Toole blocked it and set a hearing date for Monday to consider blocking it further.
“I enjoined the defendants from taking any action to implement the so-called ‘Fork Directive’ pending the completion of briefing and oral argument on the issues,” O’Toole reportedly said. “I believe that’s as far as I want to go today.”
Department of Justice attorneys said they would be notifying every federal employee involved in the potential buyout, which is around 2 million. However, O’Toole described the hearing as a “table setting session” to schedule arguments for Monday’s hearing and made no further comment about the dispute over the buyout plan.