2026-09-16 · NBC News
🔮 At the time of the program’s announcement, then-White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that if federal workers “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 8 months.”
During Trump’s second term, the federal workforce has lost more than 271,000 employees as of July, according to data published by OPM. assertive