(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Union Leaders representing millions of Federal Employees are warning their Members not to accept the so-called buyout offers they received in mass mailings from President Donald Trump’s Office of Budget Management.

Those Leaders note it is essentially a backdoor scheme to destroy the Federal Agencies that Trump is looking to dismantle with funding freezes and Executive Orders.

They also note Trump, who rarely pays anyone anything he owes, is the last person to believe when he promises money.

Fear and confusion now hang over all two million Federal Workers.

Their two big Unions - the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), are telling their Members and non-Members not to even answer the e-mails that dangled eight months of pay if they quit right now.

That latest threat sent the AFGE and the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) to seek a Federal Court Order demanding an end to the scheme.

The letters, the funding freeze the Trump Administration now says continues in place and the hiring freeze violate the U.S. Constitution, scholars say, because they grab the power of the purse from where it belongs, in Congress, and give it to the Executive Branch.

Article I of the Nation’s basic charter makes Congress supreme in deciding spending and priorities.

Article II, which covers the President, says the Chief Executive’s duty is to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

That clause doesn’t let Trump unilaterally impound money.

AFSCME President Lee Saunders saw all facets of the threat, including to the Constitution: “This is a blatant overreach of Presidential powers that comes straight from Project 2025.  Billionaires and their Anti-Union extremist friends amassed more power and influence than ever and they are using it now to rob Working People.”

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