White House offers two million federal employees financial incentives to quit

Government employees’ union says offer pressures career workers to quit and will cause chaos in federal programs

Wed, 29 Jan, 2025 - 08:13

David Shepardson and Jarrett Renshaw

The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is offering financial incentives to two million civilian full-time federal workers to quit as part of plans to drastically shrink the size of the US government.

The "deferred resignation program" would allow federal employees to remain on the payroll through September 30 but without having to work in person and possibly having their duties reduced or eliminated in the meantime, according to an email sent to federal employees and seen by Reuters.