https://thenationalpulse.com/2...lly-resigning-today/

More than 100,000 federal workers are set to resign on Tuesday, marking the largest mass resignation in U.S. history. The resignations are the conclusion of buyout agreements entered into with the Trump administration this past February, with the federal workers’ tenure set to end at the conclusion of the 2025 fiscal year.

Despite misleading reports, the resignations are not politically motivated nor are they new departures. Rather, the terminations were voluntarily agreed to months ago, with many of the federal workers either having already moved on to the private sector or using the intervening time to find new work. Notably, a number of the 100,000 employees—per their buyout agreements—have not worked for the federal government in any significant capacity for several months or more.

In addition to the scheduled resignations per the terms of the buyout agreements, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has warned that if a temporary federal government funding agreement in Congress is not reached before October 1, the agency will be laying off some non-essential workers in addition to furloughs.

With a potential government shutdown looming, President Donald J. Trump held eleventh-hour negotiations with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders at the White House on Monday evening. Despite the last-minute budget talks, most lawmakers on Capitol Hill have indicated that at least a short closure of some federal agencies is likely.

House and Senate Democrats have demanded that any short-term funding measure include hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare funding for illegal immigrants and the repeal of certain provisions in President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

A good explanation of the story that the news media has mostly spun to have a different meaning.
These are really contract workers that re-up each year. Contract workers that last signed or were hired under the Biden administration.
In other words, Trump now gets to put folks in there like Biden's did last time.
Puts things in a much different light for sure.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:

These are really contract workers ...

Not a single person of the dozen or so I know who took "the fork in the road" offer is a contractor or a contract worker.

ALL are fully federal employees, usually GS-14 and above. All took it because they were retiring at the end of FY2025 or CY2025. It was quite a good deal for them.

Taking 100k people off the government payroll ought to save about $7-10 billion a year, oughtn't it?

“ House and Senate Democrats have demanded that any short-term funding measure include hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare funding for illegal immigrants.”

This position alone is an excellent reason to throw them out of office! Free healthcare is a magnet for illegal immigration and an insult to genuine American citizen/taxpayers!

The reality is that won’t even get rid of the fat that Biden added.

From 2000 to 2020 (20 years) we added 240,000 government employees.

In 4 years Biden added 300,000 employees to make his jobs report look good.

Taking a buyout - rather than RIFFed?

Hope it turns out to be more than 100k when the dust settles

If they are Non-esential workers then why are they employed and being payed by our tax money.. Get rid of the excess pork................. drill sgt.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

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Originally posted by 220-9er:

These are really contract workers ...

Not a single person of the dozen or so I know who took "the fork in the road" offer is a contractor or a contract worker.

ALL are fully federal employees, usually GS-14 and above. All took it because they were retiring at the end of FY2025 or CY2025. It was quite a good deal for them.

This is the correct answer. I know multiple fed people who were 14s that took the early exit. It was almost too good to be true and number of them were skeptical and waited until the last minute before agreeing.

The new secret is that some agencies didn't have enough people taking the early exit opportunity and they will offer it again with some increased perks. If that doesn't work, they will RIF people.