Judge Extends Deadline For Federal Workers To Accept “Buyout” Offer

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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From layoffs to budget cuts, over and over judges are shutting Trump’s plan to overhaul the federal government. But, did his administration just hint at how it will push back? Plus, large protests in Israel after an announcement from Hamas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.3	If the president wants to remake government, he'll have to get through the courts first.
0:38.6	The lead starts right now.
0:46.8	From layoffs to budget cuts over and over judges are shutting down President Trump's plan to overhaul the federal government.
0:50.5	But did his administration just hint at how it will push back?
0:54.0	A line from Vice President J.D. Vance may reveal what's next. Plus, large protests
0:56.0	in Tel Aviv after an announcement from Hamas, the terror group threatening to postpone the next hostage release.
1:02.0	The conditions they say must be met as a far-right Israeli official responds with threats of his own.
1:08.0	And a special guest on the lead, Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hertz,
1:13.0	fresh off the Eagles' blowout victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Welcome to the lead. I'm
1:22.9	fomatically in for Jake Tapper. We begin this hour with a wave of headlines in our politics lead.
1:28.3	President Donald Trump today pressing ahead with his agenda to shrink and reshape the federal government.
1:33.3	As a judge is hearing a challenge to the so-called buyouts offered to about 2 million federal workers.
1:39.3	This, as a federal judge today, for the second time, told the Trump administration, it cannot cut off
1:45.6	grant and loan payments after Trump put a freeze on those funds. Plus a third federal judge
1:51.5	blocked Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of people who are in the U.S.
1:56.4	illegally. Now, while many of Trump's agenda items face legal challenges, the administration seems to be
2:02.4	raising questions about whether it actually has to abide by those court rulings.
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