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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

The White House will issue a memo Tuesday offering to pay federal workers who don't want to return to the office through Sept. 30, as long as they resign by Feb. 6, an administration official tells Axios.

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The Trump administration is offering millions of federal workers the option to accept buyouts through a government-wide "deferred resignation" program if they resign by Feb. 6. Read more here:

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-- CNBC (@cnbc.com) January 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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"The memo is just the latest step in the White House's unprecedented move to push career federal workers out of their jobs, and, observers say, replace them with loyalists " a return to a patronage system that federal law sought to banish more than a century ago.

On Monday, the administration offered more details on its plan to reclassify thousands of federal civil servants, stripping them of legal protections from firing, in a memo to agency heads.

The executive order and the guidance is a way to make it easier to fire civil servants and turn what had been career jobs into patronage jobs, said Sharon Parrott, head of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and a former Office of Management and Budget appointee under Obama.

The moves "will almost surely lead many expert, knowledgeable career civil servants to withhold their best advice," Parrott tells Axios."

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SO... this is to get rid of the last people working in Gov who don't care which Party is in Office, and replace them with Trump loyalists who will bend over whenever he tells them to.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-28 06:09 PM | Reply

Whistling past the Graveyard of American Democracy.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-28 06:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm so glad peeps voted Jill Stein 2024! after voting Jill Stein 2016!

Good thing Americans had nothing to worry about if Trump won office, again.

#3 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-28 06:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Even had every vote for Jill Stein gone to Harris, she still would have lost.

Fact is. Biden won in 2020. But Democrats kept kicking the can down the road and now it's biting us all.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-28 07:35 PM | Reply

Joe Biden made the terrible mistake of picking for his vice president someone who would have never even been elected to the Senate if it wasn't for Democrats making guilt a central part of their ideology.

#5 | Posted by Tor at 2025-01-28 07:41 PM | Reply

Even had every vote for Jill Stein gone to Harris, she still would have lost.

Fact is. Biden won in 2020. But Democrats kept kicking the can down the road and now it's biting us all.

Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-28 07:35 PM | Reply

It's easier to blame third party voters than it is to blame the Democratic party. It takes no mental effort to do it.

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-28 07:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The lack of a third party is why it was so easy for the wealthy to buy and control both parties.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-28 07:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's easier to blame third party voters than it is to blame the Democratic party. It takes no mental effort to do it.
#6 | Posted by LauraMohr

And it's easier to blame the Democratic party than the liberal third party voters who handed the White House to the GOP three times, twice despite losing the popular vote.

But their pain embiggens my heart, so there's always that.

#8 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-28 07:58 PM | Reply

It's easier to blame third party voters than it is to blame the Democratic party. It takes no mental effort to do it.
#6 | Posted by LauraMohr
And lest we forget

Jill Stein: How and Why I Will Stop Kamala Harris Winning the White House
www.newsweek.com
So she proudly declared that it was her intended purpose to help Trump win. And all her supporters fell in line to help her.

So, yes, I'm blaming the voters who facilitated this result. Because that's the way democracies work. The voters are responsible for who wins or loses an election. Sorry to break that to you.

#9 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-28 08:08 PM | Reply

So she proudly declared that it was her intended purpose to help Trump win.

Lots of people helped Trump win.

Mostly Elon Musk.

And all her supporters fell in line to help her.

Based on election results, not in any meaningful way.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-28 08:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

what a monumentally bad move.

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-28 08:21 PM | Reply

what a monumentally bad move.
#11 | Posted by truthhurts

What monumentally lack of information post

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-28 08:25 PM | Reply

Each slot is a law created by Congress. If an employee resigns, the slot does not go away unless the job goes away. The job does not go away unless Congress says they don't want to pay someone to do the job. If the agency can do the job with less slots that is great. That is exactly what this program is for. Not for "trimming" the entire government. If the agency cannot do the "job" anymore without that employee then the job just doesn't get done.

So Trumpy's going to bring this economy quickly to a grinding halt.

What a great well thought out plan.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-28 11:15 PM | Reply

They have figured out they can't legally fire everyone so they're trying to trick them out of their jobs. The sad thing is it'll probably work and our government agencies will lose a lot of decent people who do good work.

#14 | Posted by qcp at 2025-01-29 08:32 AM | Reply

Anyone that accepts this buyout is taking a HUGE risk. Trump has no money and can't pay them what he's promising.
Only Congress can do that.

#15 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-29 09:25 AM | Reply

This is because he cannot fire them for refusing to stop working from home.

It's already backfiring www.yahoo.com

"I'll be honest, before that email went out, I was looking for any way to get out of this fresh hell," said one user in the popular r/fednews subreddit. "But now I am fired up to make these goons as frustrated as possible, RTO be damned."

#16 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-01-29 10:38 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#1 ... "The memo is just the latest step in the White House's unprecedented move to push career federal workers out of their jobs, and, observers say, replace them with loyalists " a return to a patronage system that federal law sought to banish more than a century ago. ...

Well, yeah.

It is just another part of Pres Trump's ~revenge and retribution~ campaign that he so proudly announced during his campaign would occur.

Federal workers now face the apparent decision of ~resign or be subject to investigative legal actions that will likely cost you your house.~


#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-29 08:57 PM | Reply

I'll buy out Trump if he agrees to hop back into a Time Machine and deport himself to Nazi Germany 1939.

#18 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-01-29 10:01 PM | Reply

He just insulted millions of hard working Americans...because he is showing his hand, he wants to turn us into a real life banana republic.

#19 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-01-30 08:20 AM | Reply

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