A federal judge has paused President Donald Trump’s buyout offers for federal government employees and could block the move altogether. US District Judge George O’Toole, an appointee of former ...

A federal judge ... earlier buyouts and retirements, the Health and Human Services Department will be left with 62,000 employees, down from around 82,000. Agencies face an April 14 deadline ...

The Trump administration offered 2 million federal workers across the country a roughly six-month buyout offer that would allow ... A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration must ...

February 6: Deadline ... 77,000 federal workers accepted the offer. On February 12, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the administration could proceed with its buyout offer after three ...

In his order, Judge James K. Bredar, of the Federal District Court in Maryland, narrowed the scope of an earlier, temporary pause ... of workers have been fired or taken an earlier buyout offer.

However, those orders are facing headwinds in court as judges have ... of pay to federal employees to volunteer to leave their jobs by Feb. 6 — with the unusual buyout offer finding about ...

However, a federal judge ... employees involved in the 2025 tax season were told they would not be allowed to accept a buyout offer from the Trump administration until after the taxpayer filing ...

Musk has been spearheading an effort to slash the size of the federal ... buyouts and terminations. Many of its moves have been challenged in court, with several judges ordering the government to ...

Also Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the White House to restore ... had no immediate comment Tuesday. — Eric Tucker New offers for buyouts and early retirement offered to Homeland Security ...