➡ President Trump is offering over two million federal workers a buyout to leave their jobs, aiming to reduce government spending. This could lead to savings of up to $100 billion annually. However, a federal judge has temporarily blocked another of Trump’s attempts to shake up the government. The decision has sparked controversy, with Democrats criticizing it as harmful and several state attorneys general suing to stop it.
➡ President Trump’s plan to freeze federal aid programs has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge. In the meantime, federal workers have been offered a buyout, allowing them to quit their jobs and be paid through September 30th. This move is seen as a way to reshape the federal workforce. However, the decision to accept the buyout is individual and depends on various factors such as personal circumstances and future plans.
➡ Some people are using extra income from severance packages or buyouts to take a break and focus on finding their purpose. Each person’s situation is unique, so it’s important to carefully consider all options, update your resume and LinkedIn, and understand the job market in your sector. It’s not a bad deal to get paid for the next nine months while figuring things out. If you can’t find another job in that time, it might reflect on your skills as an employee.

We’re gonna go into two different subjects for Trump. The first thing that we’re gonna talk about is federal buyouts. Trump is initiating offering federal workers, over two million of you guys, buyouts to no longer be a part of the federal government. Let’s deep dive into it. We’re gonna look at it from two different lenses. All right, we want to go first to NBC News and get some understanding on what’s going on here, guys. Tonight, as part of his promise to reduce government spending, President Trump is making more than two million federal workers an offer.

Quit now and accept a severance package. NBC News first reporting federal employees receive the offer by email late this afternoon. The White House expects five to ten percent of the federal workforce to accept it, which could lead to a hundred billion dollars in annual savings. But tonight, in a blow to the administration, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the president’s attempt at another government shake-up. After the Office of Management and Budget overnight ordered a temporary pause on grant, loan or federal financial assistance programs that might run counter to President Trump’s executive orders.

It means no more funding for illegal DEI programs. It means no more funding for transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies. President Trump is looking out for you by issuing this pause because he is being good steward of your taxpayer dollars. Democrats immediately assailed the president’s action. Law enforcement, rural hospitals, aid to the elderly, food for people in need. This decision is lawless, dangerous, destructive, cruel. While several state Democratic attorneys general sued to block the move. We’re going to get into that a little bit later because I’m going to play a huge portion of the press secretary’s conference that she did yesterday.

I think that she’s awesome. It was her first one. A stark contrast to what you experienced for Kareem Jean-Pierre, who was Biden’s press secretary in particular. But let’s talk about this for a minute. This federal buyout, okay, so there’s always multiple ways when it comes to a federal buyout. The first wave is neg out. Do y’all know what a neg out is? I didn’t say n-i-g-g-a. I said neg out. N-e-g-o-u-t. Neg is short for negative. That’s what you do when you want people to quit because they’re not going to comply and they wasn’t doing their job in the first place.

And so instead of you having to offer them a buyout, they decide to quit. I would never advise for anybody, even if you’re a trash employee, to quit your job because you’re souring on the idea of working for this person. No matter what job you do, if you want to protect the bag, you never let them neg you out. You show up. I see it happening with Jimmy Butler in the NBA right now. They basically bait in this dude to give up 20 million plus dollars because he don’t want to do what he’s supposed to do and he’s not complying when it comes to whatever the Miami Heat culture is.

So now he’s suspended indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team. He has a 49 million dollar contract, possibly a 52 million dollar contract if he opts in for next year and he wants to walk off during practice when they say you ain’t starting. Man, I don’t care if you say I’m not starting or not. I’m not missing out on one dollar. So instead, you throw a temper tantrum, you walk out, you neg out, you decide that you don’t want to join on the team playing, so on and so forth. Well, guess what? Now you’re losing hundreds of thousands of dollars, seven, eight hundred thousand dollars per game that you miss and you suspended indefinitely.

The one thing that we don’t do over here on the Millionaire Morning Show is we don’t fumble bags, right? So that’s the first wave. The first wave was to nag y’all out. How did it nag you out? Well, they say, listen, you’re not doing what you’re supposed to do on the jobs. We can see the data. We can see this as the statistics were bloated than hiring government workers, partially because the Biden administration, in order to prop up the job numbers, overhired people, created multiple different departments, hired a bunch of IRS agents that’s not really doing a job.

They also did what? Created diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. They sent money over to Gaza. They got a whole team that’s sending condoms over to Gaza to the tune of 50 million dollars and grant money. And so it’s a lot of money that can’t be accounted for, and this is our tax dollars. And so the first thing that they did is say, listen, first of all, we’re going to all come back into the office. If you don’t want to come back into the office, you can quit. If you can’t find a way to get back here, you can quit.

Y’all worked from home over the last five years. The party is up. The party is up. We talked about it. We said that we was creating a department of government agency before we even got elected into the federal government. We told you if we got elected, then we would bring people back into the office. You had ample time. You procrastinated. You voted for Kamala Harris, who did what you wanted to do. Well, guess what? Now you got to pay the piper. After they get that wave of people out that fumbled a bag.

The second thing that you do, and this happens throughout corporate America. And I always said that the federal government need to be looked at with the efficiency of regular, everyday, corporate American businesses, because if you don’t operate as a business, then that means that they’re going to just spend recklessly. And then that’s when you run up the national debt unnecessarily. The second wave is to offer buyouts. Now, in town, why would they offer buyouts to over two million people? Well, I’ll tell you why they offer buyouts to over two million people, because they know and anticipate in at least five to 10%, hopefully in the 12 to 13% range is going to take the buyout.

The question that you have to ask yourself is, as a federal worker, do I take the buyout? In what circumstances does it actually justify me giving up my position, giving up my, well, not a TSP, giving up my 403B. 403B is the equivalent of a TSP or 401K for a private worker or for a government worker, for a military person, right? They just name it differently, but it all operates the same. Giving up your TSP, giving up your benefits. In what situation do you now have an excuse because you either got to go back into the office or you can take this buyout.

In what circumstances do you want to take the buyout? We’ll get there shortly. Let’s look at it from a different angle from CNN’s perspective, and then I’m going to deep dive a little bit more. An offer or a threat? This morning, millions of federal workers are faced with a choice. Stay in their jobs with an uncertain future or leave the government, leave their jobs with a buyout. You’re not taking a buyout, the White House made the offer in an abrupt email to employees with the subject line, a fork in the road and the clock is ticking.

Federal workers have just over a week to decide if they stay. The administration is making clear their job still might not be there for long. It’s part of Trump’s push to dramatically shrink the size of government. One federal employee, though, tells CNN that people are stunned, pissed, baffled, and a bit scared. Somebody in the chat says, nobody I know is taking that dummy buyout. Well, let’s talk about it for a second. How do you know you’re not going to get laid off? How do you know that your job, because they’re just going to shift people around to the positions that they need them in.

Once they see natural attrition, once people start taking buyouts, it happens in the auto industry when they want certain workers to retire. They offer buyouts and incentivize people for early retirement and so on and so forth. Here’s the dilemma. OK, and I’m not saying that your positions are going to be cut. You don’t have to make it on an individual basis. But how do you know that your job is not going to be cut? How do you know that you’re not going to get laid off? That’s the question that you have to ask yourself, because everybody’s circumstance is not the same, right? There’s over two million federal employees, all branches of government, all federal employee jobs are not created equal.

You can’t blanket statements say, well, ain’t nobody taking that. How do you know it’s not going to be a good situation or if it’s going to turn into a bad situation for you? Because they are going to go through what it’s fine to call and find out where all of the inefficiencies are. Who’s doing what? And let’s continue. There is also this is also only part of the latest episode of Donald Trump chaos. There’s still mass confusion about what programs are really being impacted by President Trump’s plan to freeze federal aid programs like Head Start, Meals on Wheels, agricultural programs, low income housing assistance, all in limbo.

For now, that freeze, though, is frozen. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the White House move to halt all of these grants and loans. CNN’s Elena Treen following all of this. John said it right. An avalanche of developments today. What is the very latest that you’re learning, Elena? That’s what I do want to start with what you first mentioned, Kate. I’m a I’m a Regent Super Chef farmer. Don’t worry, I get there. Two million federal workers last night offering them a buyout, as you mentioned, I think you put up perfectly with an uncertain future.

They can quit their jobs and be paid through September 30th or stick around and figure out whether or not they will be forced to. You can quit your job. Listen, listen, this is not something to take lightly. I know that you’re already didn’t made your mind up and said, I ain’t taking that buyout. Think about it. I’m a play it again for the people in the back. I’m gonna let you hear it. I think you put up perfectly with an uncertain future. They can quit their jobs and be paid through September 30th or you can quit your job and be paid through September 30th.

That changes things a little bit, don’t it? That check that the game is different all of a sudden, right? Because now you say, wait a minute, I might be laid off and get that little $400 a week check from unemployment insurance or, or I could get paid for chilling and I can go and do something else through September 30th by getting a buyout. Oh, see not. Oh, don’t look too bad. Now do it. More knowledge and Sabrina look a little different. Look at that. Elena Elena. Now you thinking now you thinking now you’re thinking wait a minute.

No, y’all first I was talking about is dumb and all of this stuff because you didn’t read the fine print. Now everybody want to sit there and say, wait a minute, wait a minute. Hmm. Clutching my pearls. I might want to think about this a little bit differently. Now people understand why I didn’t quit corporate America. I said, you know what? I’m going to wait and see what the package is. I’m going to wait and see what they, what they give me because I was already going to be doing what I’m going to do anyway.

So why wouldn’t I take the free money? Absolutely. I’m going to take the money because I’m already busy doing stuff that I had already prepared myself for not being in corporate America two years ago. They just gave me a bunch of free money. It changes things, don’t it? Stick around and figure out whether or not they will be forced to resign. Now, this is just the latest stunning move we’ve seen by the Trump White House really to reshape the federal workforce Donald Trump’s image. Now, one thing to be clear on, as I said, this was sent to all 2 million federal workers, but there are some exceptions.

I’m told to buy a spokesperson from the office of personnel management, which sent this out. These are the exceptions that they noted that would not be included in this buyout. It includes. Lion Super Bowl, you late bro. We already had that conversation. We already covered it in segment one. Y’all going to have to start being on time to the millionaire morning show. If you want me to cover your subject, it’s the possibility that I already did it. You don’t have to go back and rewatch the show or you’re going to have to rewind a live stream and watch that segment of the show.

Y’all be late. You don’t have to put it in the chat eight times. The chat is looking at you crazy because they were all here on time. Looking at me, cover that segment of the show, the chat looking at you crazy because you putting it in there eight times and we didn’t already covered it, but you late and you’re trying to make it seem like you was here on time, but we already know that you didn’t do your homework and that’s the reason why you was late. You showing yourself workers, um, military workers, immigration officials, certain national security roles and any other roles that these different agencies necessary.

Now, another thing I’m told is that the Trump administration is trying to, to frame this buyout as being, uh, an offering for people who do not want to return to work full time. We know that, uh, last week we saw Donald Trump issue a directive that said all people who have flexible schedules, remote schedules have to come back to work full time. They’re saying this could be a good option for that. But again, this is being offered widespread throughout the government. I do want to read for you to some of what was in that email that was sent to all of these employees last night.

It said, quote, at this time, we cannot give you full assurance regarding the certainty of your position or agency, but should your position be eliminated, you will be treated with dignity and will be afforded the protections in place for such positions. Now, as you mentioned, Kate as well, workers have until February 6th, which is just a week from tomorrow to decide whether or not they want to opt for this type of buyout. Now, one other thing as well, that’s just, you know, can’t be lost in this is Elon Musk’s involvement. We are told that, um, Musk had long been wanting to do this and he was very involved in, in the crafting of this effort and the subject line that came on that email that was sent to all of these employees last night was a fork in the road.

Very reminiscent of an email we know he sent to Twitter employees in 2022 before we saw a lot of the firings that happened there. So, um, again, a massive change to the federal workforce. We’ll have to see how many people end up actually taking this and what could happen thereafter. Can I ask you about the, uh, the Musk mirroring the email to Twitter employees to, uh, all federal workers? Yeah. A fork in the road. That was, I mean, can you imagine if you’re a federal worker and that suddenly shows up in your inbox? Uh, clearly it’s a symptom of his desire to, to get these government reforms going very quickly.

And I guess you could say it’s a pretty innovative thing to bring in the corporate solution, uh, on manpower and reducing manpower here. But if yesterday was an interesting, uh, data point on this, because it showed people just how important government is in their lives in many ways and ways we don’t think about. If suddenly, you know, thousands of government employees start taking these buyouts and there’s no replacements, that could cause chaos. I mean, it’s possible Trump. No, that’s not how it works. So what happens is, um, when these buyouts happen, they start to reposition people that are in the federal government that may or may not, that may or may not, uh, be doing something that is efficient or inefficient, or maybe they phasing out their, you know, their division or stuff like that.

And so what happens is they then move those, those employees, depending on where their fit is, they move them into other positions where there’s natural attrition or where people took a buyout. Right. Uh, and then you got to take in all of the other factors. There are other factors that go into this conversation. For example, there may be older people that was already looking to retire within the next year or so, or whatever, blah, blah, blah. And then they can take that early retirement package, or they can get that money, or it may be people that already got another job offer, or some people are already running a business and they don’t want to go back into the office.

And so instead of them going back into the office, they focus 100% on a business that’s already profitable, but they still getting paid, even though they don’t have to do anything, it’s people that then have the skill set to go and find another job. But the question that you have to ask yourself, and the reason why I’m not giving a blanket, uh, recommendation is because you have to figure out what makes sense. And it’s on an individual basis. Can you bet on yourself? Some of y’all, you might’ve just got in there because your home girl got you in there and you don’t really got the skill set and you don’t have the education.

You didn’t take school and have it paid for by the federal government. According to your benefits package, you just was sitting chilling all day long. And instead of you working on becoming a better version of yourself and getting that school, getting that education, taking advantage of your benefits, networking effectively. Now, if you take the buyout or you just sit there, you might be stuck between a rock and a hard place and can’t find nothing. Some people don’t necessarily need it. And then, and you know, they’re men, some women, for example, may be married and a man don’t necessarily want all that stress on them.

And so what they’ll do is say, honey, take the buyout. I want you to focus on finding your purpose or whatever it’s on and so forth. And so some people are using the extra income is just that it’s extra. It’s not needed. You know what we not, we don’t want to move. We don’t want to do this. We straight. And so every single individual situation is different. Every situation is different for me. Anytime somebody is offering me a severance package or a buyout, I’m always betting on me because I know me. I’m a hustler.

I go get it. I can find another job just like that. I have a skillset and a resume that would allow for me to be able to take advantage of this and get that at the same time. You know, for me, I’m betting on myself. For other people, you’re going to have to be very, very careful. Take the whole week to figure it out, weigh every option, put some testers out there, update your resume, update your LinkedIn, because it’s a competitive job market, depending on what segment you win, what sector that you win.

Some people may be a government worker in the technology sector. Some people may be a government worker in social security. I don’t know. But the point is, is that you’re going to have to figure it out individually, but don’t ignore it because it’s not a bad package to get paid for the next nine months. And then to figure it out, if you can’t find another job in nine months, then you wasn’t a good employee in the first place. [tr:trw].

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