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Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) said Thursday that she’s not running for re-election in 2026. “I’ve decided not to run for re-election to the Senate in 2026. This job has been the honor of a lifetime. For the rest of my term, I’ll work as hard as I can for Minnesotans and our country,” Smith said. “Thank you so much, Minnesota,” she added. WATCH: I’ve decided not to run for re-election to the Senate in 2026. This job has been the honor of a lifetime. For the rest of my term, I’ll work as hard as I can for Minnesotans and our country. Thank you so much, Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/3sWVib8nKJ — Senator Tina Smith (@SenTinaSmith) February 13, 2025 Per MPR News: U.S. Sen. Tina Smith announced Thursday she will retire after next year, opting against a 2026 bid for another six-year term and putting a Democratic-held seat in play in an increasingly competitive Upper Midwest. The decision comes after Smith had been conveying her plan to run again for a seat she has held since 2018. She has won two prior Senate elections, including a 5-percentage-point victory when last on the ballot in 2020. She had more than $700,000 in her campaign account to start the year. “I have loved my job as United States Senator, and also, after 20 years of hard and rewarding work in the public sector, I’m ready to spend more time with my family,” Smith said in a video announcing her decision. Smith added, “This decision is not political, it is entirely personal, but it’s not lost on me that our country is in need of strong progressive leadership right now, maybe more than ever.” She said she would put her all into the final two years of the term and expressed confidence that a fellow Democrat from a “deep bench of political talent” in Minnesota would take her place after the next election. According to POLITICO, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is considering a run for the U.S. Senate after Smith announced her retirement. JUST IN: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz considering a run for Senate next year after Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) announced her retirement – POLITICO pic.twitter.com/KyqWRh6ll5 — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 13, 2025 From POLITICO: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is considering a run for Senate next year, according to a person close to the governor who was granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations. His consideration of the seat comes after Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) announced her retirement from the blue-leaning battleground on Thursday. Walz, the former vice presidential nominee, could also run for reelection as governor in 2026. Already on Thursday, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan kicked off a bid with a post on social media: “I love Minnesota and my intention is to run for United States Senate and continue to serve the people of this state. I’ll make a formal announcement later this month.” Progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) didn’t rule out a run, either. “Congresswoman Omar will be talking with Minnesotans about the future of the Senate seat and DFL party in Minnesota,” a spokesperson said. Smith, who has served in the Senate since 2018, said in a video announcing her decision that “after 20 years of hard and rewarding work in the public sector, I’m ready to spend more time with my family.”

U.S. District Judge George O’Toole on Wednesday allowed the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer for federal employees to move forward. According to CNN, O’Toole ruled that federal employee unions, who brought the lawsuit on behalf of their members, are not directly impacted by the offer and lack standing.  BREAKING: Judge restores Trump administration's buyout offer to federal workers https://t.co/YFUgcSKydy — Fox News (@FoxNews) February 12, 2025 Per CNN: The ruling is a major win for the Trump administration, which has struggled to successfully defend its policies in court in roughly four dozen lawsuits. The deferred resignation offer is a key piece of the Trump administration’s effort to downsize the federal government. Some 77,000 workers accepted the package, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday. The program closed at 7 p.m. ET Wednesday. The offer will generally allow them to leave their jobs but be paid through the end of September – though the unions and many workers have said that the information the administration has released about the package has been conflicting and confusing. The 77,000 figure represents close to 4% of the roughly 2 million federal employees who received the incentive. However, not all may ultimately be able to take it since the administration exempted some positions after sending the offer – but the number of people in that situation is very low, Pinover said. BREAKING: A federal judge has dissolved his temporary freeze on the Trump administration’s unprecedented offer for millions of federal workers to resign, allowing the buyout program to proceed. https://t.co/5Og22KQ1ch — Breaking News (@BreakingNews) February 12, 2025 “That’s gonna save millions of dollars for the American taxpayer, and that’s exactly what we wanted,” Leavitt said. WATCH: BREAKING: @PressSec Karoline Leavitt confirms that 75,000 federal workers accepted buyouts: “That’s gonna save millions of dollars for the American taxpayer, and that’s exactly what we wanted.” pic.twitter.com/sCCK0N6vPn — Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) February 13, 2025 Fox News reports: U.S. District Judge George O’Toole of Massachusetts made the ruling in favor of the White House Wednesday evening. In his decision, he wrote that the plaintiffs in the case “are not directly impacted by the directive” and denied their case on that basis. “[T]hey allege that the directive subjects them to upstream effects including a diversion of resources to answer members’ questions about the directive, a potential loss of membership, and possible reputational harm,” O’Toole wrote. “The unions do not have the required direct stake in the Fork Directive, but are challenging a policy that affects others, specifically executive branch employees. This is not sufficient.” Additionally, the judge wrote that his court “lacks subject matter jurisdiction to consider the plaintiffs’ pleaded claims,” noting similar cases where courts were found to have lacked authority. “Aggrieved employees can bring claims through the administrative process,” O’Toole said. “That the unions themselves may be foreclosed from this administrative process does not mean that adequate judicial review is lacking.”