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White House expecting ‘spike’ in federal resignations as at least 20K take buyouts

by February 4, 2025
February 4, 2025

The White House is expecting a ‘spike’ in federal resignations ahead of a Thursday deadline for a buyout offer, Fox News Digital has learned. 

Nearly all federal employees were offered a buyout as part of President Donald Trump’s plan for government employees to physically work out of their offices, following years of remote work stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Government employees have until Thursday to take the offer, with the Trump administration expecting an influx of resignations in the next two days. 

‘The number of deferred resignations is rapidly growing, and we’re expecting the largest spike 24 to 48 hours before the deadline,’ a White House official told Fox News Digital on Tuesday morning. 

Axios reported earlier Tuesday that roughly 20,000 federal employees have taken the offer, accounting for about 1% of the federal government’s workforce. The White House official told Fox News Digital following the report’s publication that the 20,000 figure ‘isn’t current.’ 

The Office of Personnel Management, which operates as the federal government’s human resources department, notified roughly 2 million federal employees on Jan. 28 that they would be required to work out of their respective offices five days a week, or they could leave their roles through the equivalent of a buyout offer. 

Those who choose to take the offer will retain all pay and benefits and be exempt from in-person work until Sep. 30. 

‘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 told reporters of the plan in late January. ‘And that’s what we’ve been looking to do for many, many decades.’ 

The buyouts do not apply to positions such as military personnel, the U.S. Postal Services or positions related to immigration enforcement and national security. 

The White House has previously said it anticipated 5% to 10% of the federal workforce to resign. 

The buyout deadline comes as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, has taken a hatchet to various government agencies and departments, as the team works to cut overspending and alleged corruption within the highest echelons of the U.S. government. 

The United States Agency for International Development is the latest agency to land under DOGE’s microscope. Hundreds of USAID employees reported they were locked out of the agency’s computer system, while its headquarters in Washington, D.C., was closed on Monday. 

On X, Musk has railed against the organization as rife with ‘marxists’ and is operating as a ‘criminal organization.’ 

‘USAID is a criminal organization,’ Musk posted to X on Sunday. ‘Time for it to die.’ 

‘USAID was a viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America,’ he said in another message. 

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