Accept to resign or not? The ultimatum which was set to the more than two million American federal officials by the new administration of Donald Trump was temporarily suspended by the courts, a few hours before his deadline on Thursday evening.
Nine days. This is the delay, very brief, which had been allocated to them to make their choice: to sign or not the proposal for “deferred resignation” on September 30, with the promise to keep their salary by then and all of their Advantages, formulated to everyone’s surprise by the new American power.
As an arrow more launched by the Republican President in his large -scale offensive to severely tighten the federal administration and cut into public spending.
“Arbitrary ultimatum, illegal, and too brief”
But a federal judge of Massachusetts suspended Thursday afternoon the deadline for this vast departure program, which was set at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, and programmed a new audience on Monday, according to the Washington Post.
The legal action had been initiated Tuesday by the main union of federal officials, AFGE, and other representative organizations to obtain that the system of deferred resignation Be blocked and that the government “develops measures that respect the law rather than an arbitrary, illegal, and too brief ultimatum”.
“More than 40,000” federal officials concerned
At this stage, “more than 40,000” federal civil servants have accepted the proper resignation proposal, according to spokesperson for the White House Karoline Leavitt. Or around 2 % of the workforce.
“We expect this number to increase. We encourage the federal officials of this city to accept very generous offer, ”she insisted on journalists on Thursday.
Mandated by Donald Trump to pilot the draconian weight loss treatment of the federal administration, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world who has become one of the very close to the Republican, counted on “5 to 10 %” of resignations.