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. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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."
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President Donald Trump and photo of empty desk. (Getty/iStock)
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 previously has said it anticipated 5% to 10% of the federal workforce to resign.
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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 buyout deadline comes as the Department of Government Efficiency, led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, pictured here with President Donald Trump, has taken a hatchet to various government agencies and departments. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)
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."
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"USAID was a viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America," he said in another message.
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