Trump, Musk’s Buyout Offer To Cut Size Of US Government Blocked By JudgeElon Musk’s offer for the country’s more than two million government employees was to quit with eight months’ pay or risk being fired in future culls.
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Trump, Musk’s Buyout Offer To Cut Size Of US Government Blocked By Judge
Elon Musk is in charge of a free-ranging entity called DOGE that aims to gut the government.Washington, United States:
A judge on Thursday suspended a scheme masterminded by billionaire Elon Musk to slash the size of the US government by encouraging federal workers to quit through a mass buyout.
The federal judge in Massachusetts ordered a temporary injunction on the plan’s deadline — midnight Thursday — given by Musk for the country’s more than two million government employees. The offer was to quit with eight months’ pay or risk being fired in future culls.
The deadline is now extended to Monday, when US District Judge George O’Toole will hold a hearing on the merits of the case brought by labor unions, US media reported.