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• Judge extends pause on ‘deferred resignation’ deadline - February 10, 2025

• By Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  A federal judge on Monday extended his order blocking the Trump administration from implementing Trump and Elon Musk’s controversial “deferred resignations” program, just hours before the new deadline for federal workers to accept the offer by Monday night.
  
  U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr., a Clinton appointee in Massachusetts’ federal district court, previously paused the administration’s February 6 deadline for federal employees to decide whether to stay in their jobs or accept eight months’ worth of pay and benefits in exchange for not working and resigning by September 30. The American Federation of Government Employees, who filed the lawsuit against the program, have argued that the plan violates the Administrative Procedure Act due to its shifting legal justifications and chaotic rollout.

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