A coalition of government employee unions have filed a lawsuit challenging the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) federal employee buyout. On January 28, 2025, OPM issued a directive titled "Fork in the Road," instructing nearly all federal employees to either resign from their position and receive their wages until September 30, 2025, or stay and risk being terminated without compensation. The plaintiffs alleged that this directive seeks to replace non-partisan career civil servants with partisans of the Trump administration. The plaintiffs argued that this directive violates the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) by failing to follow the APA's rule-making regulations and taking arbitrary and capricious action.
