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NPR News: 04-01-2025 5PM EDT

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

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0:16.9

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

0:21.6

Some federal agencies are giving employees a new offer to resign ahead of sweeping job cuts mandated by the Trump administration.

0:30.5

NPR Shannon Bond reports workers have been given a short window to resign and keep getting paid through September.

0:36.2

The Departments of Agriculture, Housing and

0:38.5

Urban Development, and Transportation said this week they're reopening their deferred resignation

0:43.1

programs. Similar notices went out on Friday at the Defense Department and the General

0:47.6

Services Administration. The new round mirrors the fork in the road offer sent in February to nearly

0:53.2

all 2.3 million civilian federal employees.

0:56.9

The Trump administration has said about 75,000 employees elected to resign under the program's first round.

1:03.3

But many workers who tried to accept the offer were later told they were ineligible.

1:08.1

Some of the new agency notices exempt jobs considered critical.

1:12.0

Shannon Bond, NPR News. It's Election Day in Wisconsin, where voters are determining the

1:17.4

ecological balance of the state Supreme Court. May and Silver of member station WUWM reports on

1:23.3

what's at stake in today's technically nonpartisan race and its political implications.

1:29.0

How Wisconsin tips on abortion, labor rights, and redistricting all hang in the balance.

1:35.1

But who wins could also reveal where national political winds are blowing, says Wisconsin

1:39.9

politics professor Anthony Tchaugosky.

1:42.2

A state Supreme Court election has basically become a stand-in

1:46.2

for the popularity of a president and the popularity of the world's richest man.

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