President Donald J. Trump is offering a buyout through a deferred resignation for all federal career employees. The move specifically targets civil service employees who refuse to return to in-person work. The buyout offer follows an executive order issued by the President last week ending broad COVID-19-era work-from-home policies.
Federal workers have until February 6 to accept the offer, and in doing so, they effectively tender their resignation at a given date in the Fall of 2025. Until their resignation date, they will continue to be employed by the federal government and allowed to work from home—an incentive to encourage federal employees to take the buyout offer.
“After four years of incompetence and failure, President Donald Trump is committed to making our government efficient and productive again,” Karoline Leavitt, President Trump’s White House press secretary, said in a statement. She continued: “American taxpayers pay for the salaries of federal government employees and therefore deserve employees working on their behalf who actually show up to work in our wonderful federal buildings, also paid for by taxpayers.”
“If they don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, then they are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of eight months,” Leavitt added.
The National Pulse previously reported that U.S. Senate investigators found just six percent of the federal workforce was actually working full-time and in person. This has left the average occupancy rate of a federal office building in Washington, D.C., at around 12 percent.
