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 ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” program, which is part of a sweeping effort to eliminate government jobs. It's the latest twist in a chaotic and ...

After shedding around 20% of its workforce in the last 15 months, the Interior Department is once again offering employees incentives to leave the agency as part of what it is calling a new “strategic ...

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

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Newly released data from the Government Accountability Office offers some of the most granular glimpses yet of how the Trump administration’s sprint to remake the federal workforce in the president’s ...

The Department of the Interior will offer employees new opportunities to leave the agency as part of a plan to improve efficiency, it said in a statement on Thursday. Interior will offer a deferred ...

Early last year, federal workers braced for layoffs after President Donald Trump took office. But as his administration’s ...