Is the Trump administration's buyout offer to federal employees legal?

Tens of thousands of federal employees have agreed to a "deferred resignation" program, but legal experts are questioning its validity as it bypasses Congressional approval.

As a critical deadline looms for millions of federal workers to decide whether to accept the Trump administration’s unprecedented buyout offer, concerns persist over whether the initiative is legally sound without Congress’s authorization. Federal law and labor experts have raised doubts about the plan’s legitimacy, given that it sidesteps the legislati…