Memo offers employees who don’t want to serve in ‘reformed federal workforce’ seven months’ salary if they quit by 6 February

• Judge temporarily halts federal grant and loans freeze
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Senator Patty Murray, of Washington, and Connecticut congresswoman Rosa DeLauro – top Democrats on the Senate and House appropriations committees – reacted to the memo ordering a pause on federal grant money with shock.

“The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking, unprecedented, and will have devastating consequences across the country,” they wrote.