More than 20,000 federal employees have announced their resignations in response to President Donald Trump’s severance offer, which would allow them to receive eight months of full pay and benefits, according to an unnamed official cited by Axios.
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As part of his effort to cut down on government waste and the number of bureaucrats, President Trump offered last week to give any federal employee who resigns before Thursday an eight-month full pay and benefits severance package.
An unnamed administration official reportedly told Axios that over 20,000 employees had accepted the resignation package as of Tuesday, just two days before the acceptance deadline.
The official claimed that more employees are expected to accept Trump’s offer before Thursday.
The White House previously estimated that between five and ten percent of federal employees would accept the offer, and although 20,000 is a significant number, it amounts to less than one percent of the government’s roughly three million employees.
The president’s offer promised that any employees who do not resign before Thursday will be treated with dignity, but they may not necessarily keep their jobs.
The offer came along with the president’s executive order demanding that federal employees return to full-time in-person work instead of the work-from-home conditions the majority have had since COVID pandemic lockdowns.
Government worker unions, such as the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), representing 800,000 federal employees, opposed Trump’s buyout offer. It is one of two unions that filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to block Trump’s buy-out offer from being implemented.
“It is clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to turn the federal government into a toxic environment where workers cannot stay even if they want to,” the AFGE said.
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Good riddance.
They probably haven’t done a good days work in the past four years .
Get um outta here .
There are plenty of people looking for a job .
Let them move to Canada .
Best of luck! By
All useless employees that sit around sleeping at their home computers pretending to do nonexistent work.
20,000 departures equates to a decrease of 12,000,000 annually in tax payer dues revenue to the civil servant labor organizers, the DNC and organized crime!