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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More than two million federal employees face a critical deadline ...

The federal government’s backlog of pending retirement claims hit the highest level since the COVID-19 pandemic last month, as tens of thousands of federal workers who accepted the Trump ...

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 ...

Newly released data from the Government Accountability Office offers some of the most granular glimpses yet of how the Trump administration’s sprint to remake the federal workforce in the president’s ...

A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from implementing its “Fork in the Road” deferred resignation offer, delaying the plan until at least Monday afternoon ...

WUSA-TV Washington, D.C. Posted: November 18, 2025 | Last updated: April 15, 2026 Shantae Graves spoke with WUSA9's Larry Miller about her struggle to find work after taking the deferred resignation ...