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Trump Offers Buyouts to Federal Employees in Bid to Cut Workforce

by m348e912 on 1/29/25, 12:16 AM with 28 comments

  • by grajaganDev on 1/29/25, 12:47 AM

    The Reddit thread has supposed screen shots of the email:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1icfqi5/voluntary_...

  • by Terr_ on 1/29/25, 12:23 AM

    Is that kind of financial-decision something the President can reliably promise under current law, as opposed to needing Congressional involvement?

    Does it apply to people dismissed because the President demanded to know how they voted and didn't like the answer?

  • by TrackerFF on 1/29/25, 12:21 AM

    If Elmo is involved in this, you might want to get those 8 months of pay upfront.

  • by m348e912 on 1/29/25, 12:16 AM

    Federal workers have until February 6th to decide to either return to office or take a payout that includes pay and benefits through September 30th.

    https://archive.is/J2PjY

  • by christophilus on 1/29/25, 2:23 AM

    This sort of approach has the effect of getting rid of your best employees, not your worst. Those who can go find other work will take the offer and go. Those who can't will stay.

  • by grajaganDev on 1/29/25, 12:29 AM

    Does a budget for the payouts exist?

    If not, this is a misleading headline.

  • by stevenwoo on 1/29/25, 12:45 AM

    The federal government is not allowed to pay more than 25000 unless Trump is proposing legislation to change this that is not mentioned. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restruct...

  • by roncesvalles on 1/29/25, 1:03 AM

    Title is clickbait. It's a buyout for workers that refuse to RTO.

    The official statement verbatim:

    "After four years of incompetence and failure, President Donald Trump is committed to making our government efficient and productive again. American taxpayers pay for the salaries of federal government employees and therefore deserve employees working on their behalf who actually show up to work in our wonderful federal buildings, also paid for by taxpayers. If they don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, then they are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of eight months."