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Summary
The CIA has reportedly offered buyouts to its entire workforce as part of efforts to align with Trump’s national security priorities.
The agency is also freezing conditional job offers, potentially rescinding those not fitting its new focus on drug cartels, Trump’s trade war, and countering China.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s office says the move is part of a broader strategy to reshape the agency.
This follows Trump’s wider government downsizing plan, which includes mass federal buyouts and aligns with Project 2025’s goal of replacing workers with political appointees.
Surely this would be an absolute intelligence clusterfuck for the US if the entire CIA staff just… left.
Only if you think that the U.S. having an intelligence-gathering capacity is a good thing. I’m guessing Putin is not in favor of it.
With Trump as President and Tulsi Gabbard in charge of national intelligence, Putin probably doesn’t mind because he’ll get the intelligence soon enough anyway.
Probably. But you dismantle the CIA and everyone will want a piece of the U.S. and try to take it.
Then they will want to reverse this when Russia and China expose Trump and his gang’s dirty laundry.
Verbiage is confusing, but there’s no way 100% are eligible for a buyout.
Even if you combine VSIP and VERA, to fall under “buyout”, not every fed is going to be eligible, and definitely not every CIA employee.
But we don’t even have a budget, we’re still on a CR, there’s literally no money allocated for any of this and very few feds are dumb enough to just take Trump’s admin at their word.
Each agency can choose what components they deem essential for operation and exclude those staff, so yeah, there’s absolutely a large chunk of the CIA that has been barred from taking the offer.