Nearly All Federal Employees Offered Buyouts by the Trump Administration

Federal employees are being offered buyouts through a new ‘deferred resignation’ initiative, allowing them to resign while receiving pay until September.

by Tom Ozimek, The Epoch Times, (excerpt)

According to Katie Miller, a member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), federal employees are being offered buyouts under the Trump administration’s new “deferred resignation” initiative. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will send emails with the proposal to federal workers.

“This email is being sent to more than TWO MILLION federal employees,” Miller wrote in a post on X on Jan. 28, in which she shared a report by Axios indicating that the Trump administration will offer to pay eligible federal workers through the end of September, provided that they hand in their resignation by Feb. 6.

A memo from OPM circulated on Jan. 28 in the agency aligns with Miller's cited reporting from Axios. It provides more details about the deferred resignation initiative, though it does not provide any details about the timing and scope of the email containing the proposal that will be circulated to workers.

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