Musk ‘Buyout’ Accepted by More Than 20,000 Federal Workers
- Official says numbers increasing ahead of Thursday deadline
- Musk, Trump have lofty goal of culling 10% of federal workers
Employees have until Thursday to accept and could leave their jobs by the end of February.
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More than 20,000 employees — about 1% of the federal workforce — have signed up for an offer to quit their jobs in exchange for a deferred resignation deal that would have taxpayers continue to pay their salaries through the end of September.
But those numbers are increasing every day, according to an official familiar with the data, and the Trump administration expects a spike in resignations as employees near Thursday’s deadline to accept the offer.