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Labor unions criticized the short, nine-day resignation window provided to federal employees, with the lawsuit calling the original deadline “an arbitrary date […] selected to put maximum pressure on the federal workforce so that they would accept the offer, in many cases contrary to federal agency and federal employee interests.”
“This lawsuit is to ensure that these misguided policies, being forced from one state onto the entire nation, will not lead America into the doldrums of an energy crisis, allowing China, India, and Russia to overtake our energy independence,” said West Virginia Attorney General John B. McCuskey.
“After all, as long as the sensitive data of Plaintiffs’ members remains accessible to Mr. Musk and other members of DOGE, the more opportunity there is for that data to be disclosed to still more unauthorized parties, either accidentally or deliberately,” the lawsuit alleges.
“The very act of compiling lists of persons who worked on matters that upset Donald Trump is retaliatory in nature, intended to intimidate F.B.I. agents and other personnel and to discourage them from reporting any future malfeasance by Donald Trump and his agents,” the lawsuit alleges.
“Real accountability for CBS and Paramount will ensure that the president is compensated for the harm done to him, and will deter the Fake News from further distorting the facts to advance a partisan agenda,” said Trump attorney Edward Paltzik. “President Trump looks forward to seeing this case through to a just conclusion.”
“We will now allow our immigrant neighbors to be terrorized like this,” said Tim Macdonald, the legal director of the ACLU of Colorado. “The landlord’s threats violate Colorado state law, which prevents landlords from trying to take advantage of the perceived immigration status of their tenants and coercing them into refraining from exercising their rights.”
“It wants to make being homeless in Grants Pass so unpleasant that people go elsewhere,” Disability Rights Oregon said in the lawsuit. “Despite the presence of numerous elderly, ill, and disabled people on site, the city increased its draconian restrictions in the dead of winter leaving hundreds of people with no legal option for their continued survival.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the pause is intended to block funding for programs that the Trump administration opposes, including programs related to DEI and the Green New Deal.
“This is going to be a big year for redefining our relationships with governments,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
Everett Kelley, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, has alleged that Trump’s executive order is a tactic to expand the White House’s control over the federal government.