A judge in Massachusetts paused a deadline to decide on whether to take the buyout, leaving some workers unsure of where their acceptance of the deal leaves them.

Yesterday’s unexpected email is another sign of Elon Musk’s influence in the Trump administration. Musk gave workers at X—then Twitter—a similar ultimatum in 2022, complete with a nearly identical “Fork in the Road” subject line. He poked at the similarities in a cryptic post yesterday evening.

The scheme is part of an ongoing effort by the new administration to slash the size of the federal bureaucracy.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal workers by offering them financial incentives, the latest tumult for government employees already wrestling with upheaval from the new administration.

New York's and Vermont's attorneys general have signed an amicus brief challenging the Trump administration's "Fork in the Road" buyout plan.The plan offered fe