Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) hit an unexpected roadblock today when a federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked its signature initiative mere hours before deadline. Yet even with this judicial intervention, the programme has already achieved something remarkable: convincing tens of thousands of federal employees to voluntarily resign. While falling well short of the administration’s ambitious target of 100,000 to 200,000 departures, these 40,000 resignations represent the largest voluntary exodus from federal service in America’s post-war history. Even as the White House denies reports that it’s drafting orders to cut thousands more workers from health agencies, America’s vast bureaucratic apparatus is facing one of the biggest shake-ups in its history.
