EPA Staff Pleased But Wary After Judge Extends Block On Trump Buyout

February 11, 2025
EPA staffers say they are pleased that a federal judge has imposed an indefinite block on the Trump administration’s buyout offer, extending his prior stay of a deadline to accept the offer to be paid through the end of the fiscal year in exchange for resigning. The order came after a Feb. 10 hearing before Judge George O’Toole of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), et al v. Charles Ezell...

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