The day – at midnight expires for the resignation of 2 million US officials

Washington. More than two million US officials have until midnight to resign with eight months of salary as compensation or risk being fired at the event, according to a plan by Millionaire Elon Musk to reduce public administration.

Musk, the richest man in the world and one of the main donors of the electoral campaign of President Donald Trump, is in charge of a Government Efficiency Department (Doge) who intends to put scissors to federal agencies .

According to US media, a small part of the officials, around 40 thousand, have now accepted the renunciation proposal.

The initiative has dismayed the officials, who face the verbal attacks of the Trump team since the 78 -year -old Republican returned to the White House on January 20.

Unions and Democrats doubt that it is legal to fire officials.

A federal judge in Massachusetts is scheduled for a hearing on Thursday on a lawsuit of the unions requesting a precautionary measure against the midnight period given by Musk.

These unions represent about 800 thousand officials.

The initiative of the Chief of Spacex, Tesla and the social network X has shaken, as an earthquake, the agencies that for decades have managed the main world economy, from education to national intelligence.

USAID, the government agency for the distribution of aid worldwide, has been paralyzed. The staff were ordered to stay at home. The White House and the right -wing media accuse her of waste.

Trump also wants to close the Department of Education and Collaborators of Musk have generated a stir when trying to access a payment system of the department of Treasury strongly guarded.

Incentives to resign have extended even to the CIA.

According to a report of New York Timesthe agency sent to the White House a list of lower rank officers, and easier to fire.

According to him Timesin the list their names and initials of their surnames have been included, but it was sent through an unable email, which fears that foreign adversaries have access to their identities.

The expansive wave of the administrative earthquake seems unstoppable: an agency official who manages the government’s properties defended that the real estate portfolio, except for the buildings of the Department of Defense, is reduced by “at least 50 percent.”

“Lacayos” from Musk

Employees who consider the offer are exposed to uncertainty, among other things because it is ignored if Trump has the legal right to make the proposal and if it will meet the conditions.

The plan was first announced in an email sent to most of the administration entitled “Bifurcation on the road”, the same one that Musk sent all Twitter employees when he bought the media platform in 2022 and renamed it as X.

Musk says that resignations are an opportunity to “take vacations” or “simply watch movies” and relax.

But the unions warn that without the signing of the Congress on the use of federally budgeted money, the agreements can lack value.

“Federal employees should not be fooled by the Wordery of non -elected billionaires and their lackeys,” said Everett Kelley, president of the US Government Employee Federation (AFGE), in an attack on Musk.

“Despite the statements in the opposite direction, this deferred resignation plan lacks financing, is illegal and does not offer guarantees. We will not stay with crossed arms and let our members become victims of this scam,” he added.

The Massachusetts demand also doubts, for ethical reasons, that workers can look for other jobs during the eight months.

An employee of the United States personnel administration office, where Musk has put his team in key positions, declared that the plan was to promote resignations through “panic.”

“It is not that we are chasing an orderly measure to reduce the size of the government,” he told AFP.

“We are trying to infuse panic so that people simply go out the door and leave the government in a paralyzed state, which is partly its goal,” added the source, who asked to maintain anonymity.