Trump administration offers federal workers exit package

A lot of people who work for the federal government do it out of a sense of service,

this person, an Iraq War veteran, said

There’s a lot of fear about returning to the office,

this person said

They just seem to be sitting back and sort of keeping their mouth shut, which is also difficult. … I don’t know where the lawyers are,

the USAID official said

And so a lot of us are going to stay out of spite,

this person added

There is a little bit of a sense of optimism that this is just the shock stage, and then things will plateau eventually, ... We know that a lot of these mandates coming out are supposed to shock us into submission or try to get us to leave our jobs. That’s the whole point of all this is to shank the government and to take out its workers.”

this person said, adding

Everyone’s trying to just stick it out,

the Forest Service employee said

For far too long, a bloated federal bureaucracy has cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars each year while strangling American enterprise and families with burdensome rules and regulations,

Kush Desai, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement

I don’t know anybody who’s interested in taking it,

the first USAID official said

They’re trying to insult us, to be honest, to say that we’re not being productive,

an official at the Department of Transportation said

You can stay and fight or you can leave,

this person said

Nobody really has any clue what’s going on.”

A civil servant at the Department of Veterans Affairs described the environment amid Trump’s rapid fire changes as “absolute chaos,” adding

It is chaos over here right now,

a second USAID official said of the environment at the agency on Monday

We think a very substantial number of people will not show up to work, and therefore our government will get smaller and more efficient,

Trump said at the signing of an immigration detention law

This 'fork' thing is not a buyout,

said Jim Eisenmann, a partner with Alden Law Group who represents federal employees

Except in rare cases determined by your agency, you are not expected to work."

While the initial memo left it unclear whether employees accepting the offer would need to continue working through September, an OPM FAQ later clarified

We have informed the federal workforce that if they're working for the federal government, they must show up to the office on time and on schedule,

he said at a White House event

If they don't agree by February 6 to show up back to work in their office, they will be terminated

he added

If we leave, we will be replaced by loyalists

the user wrote

The substantial majority of federal employees" working remotely since the pandemic "will be required to return to their physical offices five days a week,

the email said

If you resign under this program, you will retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload and will be exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements until September 30, 2025 (or earlier if you choose to accelerate your resignation for any reason),

the email states