NBC News cannot independently verify the number of employees who took the White House's offer. In fiscal year 2023, the attrition rate of the federal workforce was 5.9%, according to the Partnership ...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump dangled a "buyout" offer in front of 2 million federal workers, encouraging them to resign ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More than two million federal employees face a critical deadline ...

These recent days have been like no other in the history of federal employment and retirement. With the whiplash back and forth with the “deferred resignation” offer it is hard to know how to proceed ...

More than 17 percent of the agency’s staff has left or will leave as part of the program. Nearly a fifth of EPA’s workforce has opted into President Donald Trump’s mass resignation plan as he pushes ...

The letters are the first examples of the national security and intelligence workforce being included in broader efforts to downsize the federal... Employees at the Central Intelligence Agency, the ...

The email subject line was as cold as the rush to slash the federal payroll in a process marked by poor communication, misinformation and insults. The email itself contained only two sentences: “The ...

Around 149,000 employees have left the federal government since President Donald Trump took office in January and began dismantling the administrative state, according to a new analysis. The data from ...

A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from implementing its “Fork in the Road” deferred resignation offer, delaying the plan until at least Monday afternoon ...

About 75,000 federal employees have accepted the White House's "deferred resignation" offer to resign but be paid through September, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management.