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 ...

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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 ...

As a court decision nears over Kari Lake’s authority to cut the majority of its broadcast staff, the US Agency for Global Media offered employees “another opportunity…to voluntarily transition out of ...

Thousands of energy and environmental agency staffers left their jobs under a Trump administration program aimed at slashing the size of the federal workforce. More than 10,700 employees resigned from ...

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USDA Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Richard Fordyce (USDA photo) USDA's Farm Service Agency saw a wave of departures from last year's deferred resignation program. Groups ...