IRS Workers Accept Trump’s Federal Buyout Proposal
Thousands of Internal Revenue Service workers have accepted President Donald Trump’s federal buyout offer that was extended to over 2 million federal workers. According to USA Today , February 6 marked the deadline for…
Thousands of Internal Revenue Service workers have accepted President Donald Trump’s federal Buyout offer that was extended to over 2 million federal workers.
According to USA Today, February 6 marked the deadline for federal employees to accept the Buyout offer from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Trump Administration. These buyouts, also referred to as “deferred resignation,” were emailed to over two million federal employees by the OPM.
The email sent by OPM to all federal workers included Buyout options due to Trump‘s plan to downsize the majority of federal agencies through methods such as “restructurings, realignments, and reductions in force.”
As of Wednesday, around 40,000 federal employees — equating to about 2% of the federal workforce — have accepted the Buyout