The plan aims to shrink the federal workforce while providing an exit for employees who feel misaligned with the administration, with a limited window for sign-ups to gauge interest. Jan. 29, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Tuesday began offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by Feb. 6 — part of President Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the U.S. government.. A memo from the Office of Personnel Management, the government's human resources agency, lists four directives that it says Trump is mandating The Trump administration says it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week — an unprecedented move to shrink the U.S. government at breakneck speed A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump's plan to freeze federal aid minutes before it was set to go into effect late Tuesday afternoon. The "brief administrative stay" came The White House has be*** offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by Feb. 6. Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months of President Donald Trump's administration has launched a sweeping overhaul of the federal workforce, starting with a blunt offer this week: Take a buyout and leave, or commit to a new era of in For the 2.1 million federal employees, one of the primary benefits of working for the U.S. government, the nation's largest employer, is its job security—a stability less common in the private A DOL OIG spokesperson, who confirmed the buyouts and early retirements, told Federal News Network that the office doesn't have a specific target for how many employees will accept the VERA / VSIP offers — but it does plan to lose about 20% of its current staffing by the end of fiscal 2024. The U.S. federal civilian workforce is the country's largest employer. Here's who these workers are: To be eligible for a buyout, you must be serving in an

appointment without time limit, have been employed by the federal government for at least three years, be in a position your agency has