Elon Musk’s buyout offer for federal workers has hit a snag. A judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the billionaire from implementing his so-called “fork in the road” buyout offer for federal employees—a blow to Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Donald Trump,

Musk is offering an unprecedented—and uncertain—financial incentive for federal workers to resign, as part of Trump's plan to restructure the “deep state.”

Two days after US federal workers were presented with a deferred resignation offer, the Transportation Security Administration clarified to its tens of thousands of employees that they weren’t allowed to participate.