President Donald Trump’s administration is offering federal workers the chance to take a “deferred resignation,” which would mean they agree now to resign but get paid through September.
A senior administration official told NBC News that they expect 5%-10% of the federal workforce to quit, which, they estimate, could lead to around $100 billion in savings.
All full-time federal employees are eligible, except for members of the military, employees of the U.S. Postal Service, positions related to immigration enforcement and national security and other jobs excluded by agencies.
The offer went out to the federal workforce through a new system the Trump administration set up that gives officials the ability to email all federal employees at once.
The email included a draft resignation letter for them to review. If a person wishes to resign, they will be able to reply with the word “resign.”
The resignation period will begin Tuesday and go through Feb. 6.
If the economy wasn’t so tight, the funniest thing would be for all of them to resign. On mass.
Depending on the wording, if they are not expected to work until September, that’s a solid few months to find a job.
It would massively slow down their ability to achieve meaningful changes.
In a normal government, I’d agree with you.
But this is fascism times. Any en masse resignations would be a boon to Trump, because it would allow him to fill the positions with his sycophants who don’t know what they are doing but think they do.
That’s the sick twisted version of all of this. There are no good options as a federal employee except to resist.
the little accelerationist in me is jumping and screaming “yay”, but i’ll keep him on a leash.
Just FYI, Trump might just fire a lot of the federal employees in the future. The keyword is “Schedule F”.
Currently they are protected by unions, that’s why they are trying to force return to office and offer fake buyouts
It’s a way to thin out staff when you can’t legally fire people