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• Trump administration’s 'deferred resignation' deadline blocked until next week - February 6, 2025

• By Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to cease all activities aimed at implementing Trump and Elon Musk’s controversial "deferred resignation" program until next week.

  On Tuesday, the American Federation of Government Employees, AFSCME and the National Association of Government Employees sued the Office of Personnel Management in an effort to halt the program, which offered most federal workers the chance to quit this month while retaining their pay and benefits until the end of September, provided they agree to resign by midnight Thursday. The unions argued that the program violates the Anti-Deficiency Act by pledging federal payments past the current March 14 government funding deadline and its ever-changing provisions and legal justifications violate the Administrative Procedures Act.

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