A federal judge in Boston has denied the request of a union to block an offer to buy out federal employees. This is a significant victory for President Trump’s plan to shrink government size and costs.

On Wednesday, District judge George O’Toole refused a request for injunction and lifted the temporary pause in the Trump Administration’s “Fork in the Road”, Jan. 28, initiative which offered buyouts to two million federal employees.

A group of federal employee unions sought to stop the initiative.

This month, they sued the Office of Personnel Management at the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts over what union officials referred to as an “arbitrary and arbitrarily” directive that offered early retirement plans designed to dramatically reduce the federal workforce.

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The judge ruled that, among other problems with their lawsuit, the unions representing more than 800.000 federal workers did not have the right to sue. “They are unable on the merits of their claims,” the judge said.

Around 65,000 federal employees accepted the buyout, which offers eight months’ pay and benefits for those who accept it.

This Boston buyout decision is the first in a series of legal victories for the President. The Court dismissed the injunction because of a lack standing. This shows that lawfare won’t ultimately triumph over the will 77 millions Americans who supported Trump and his priorities,” White House Press Secretary KarolineLeavitt stated.

In his ruling, Judge O’Toole lifted a temporary pause from the deadline of the Trump administration for federal employees to decide on whether or not to accept the buyout. The deadline was set at 6 February.

Ms. Leavitt has not indicated whether the deadline for the buyout offers will be extended as a result of the judge’s decision.

The lawsuit was filed by the American Federation of Government Employees, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and National Association of Government Employees.

Democracy Forward, a left-leaning advocacy group for legal reform, also filed on behalf of the unions.

“Today’s decision is a setback for the fight to ensure dignity and fairness in public service.” It’s not over yet. AFGE lawyers are evaluating this decision and assessing the next steps,” AFGE National president Everett Kelley stated.

Mr. Kelley pointed out that the decision did not “address the legality of the program at its core.”

He said: “We will continue to maintain that it is illegal to require American citizens, who have dedicated a career to public service, to decide, within a few days, and without sufficient information, whether they want to uproot their family, leave their careers, or accept an IOU, which is essentially unfunded, from Elon Musk.”

The unions have told workers to refuse the buyouts. They held a protest near the Capitol on Tuesday to protest the buyouts, which they claim are an illegal attempt to “dismantle critical agencies by removing staff and cutting funding.”

The Boston case was one of two major suits that Mr. Trump faced after he took significant steps to reduce the size and costs of government as part of his campaign promise.

A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled earlier this month that the Trump administration must restart federal spending of billions of dollars, which the White House tried to put on hold.

Judge John J. McConnell Jr. issued an earlier temporary injunction blocking the funding pause, and instructed the government to resume all spending.

He said that it was clear the team of the president has not done this.

Before the Boston decision in his favor on Wednesday, Mr. Trump labeled Rhode Island and Massachusetts Judges, both appointed by Democratic Presidents, as “activists.”

Mr. Trump said he was working with the Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, and a dozen employees whom he called “12 geniuses,” in order to reduce wasteful federal expenditures.

The group has recovered tens billions in federal spending within weeks. Much of this money came from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a foreign assistance program that Donald Trump had dismantled because he called it a slush-fund for leftist causes.