When the Federal Personnel Management Office for the first time suggested a “deferred resignation” package to urge federal workers to quit last week, Elon Musk Appreciation generalization The offer can attract 5 to 10 percent of the governmental workforce to leave. This estimate is so far.
“He represents an OPM spokesman for this figure – which still can rise more amid legal uncertainty – it represents Malcolorn Benove, an OPM spokesman This number – which may still rise more amid the legal uncertainty – is that it represents the OPM spokesman, this number, that by midday on Friday, with the original deadline on Thursday to accept the offer that the federal judge has now stopped less than 3 percent. Of all 2.3 million federal workers, with the exception of military and postal service.
Perspective, about 150,000 federal workers, or 7 percent, leave the government voluntarily every year. The volume of resignation provided will be from Friday – the submitted against seven months of wages and benefits – the equivalent of five months of departure, which perhaps many of them occurred this year anyway.
In other words, the federal government is a huge work force that already faces a major rotation every year. In addition to workers who leave the government for retirement or simply to resign, between 50,000 to 60,000 people each year is ended for disciplinary causes or performance, or because their dates or money has expired. A small number – about 3400 – die every year while employing it by the government. All of these departures are usually replaced by about 240,000 appointments every year.
President Trump and Mr. Musk also aims to reduce the workforce by pressing this second group – new employees – by freezing employment to large parts of federal workers. In terms of reducing the total number of head, it can be more important to freeze recruitment than to encourage resignation.
Now the resignations that have been submitted may not pass. On Thursday afternoon, a federal judge in the state of Massachusetts froze the plan in response to a lawsuit by several employee unions who were appealed in the legal authority of the government to present such a offer. The hearing is scheduled for Monday.
With the resignation plan and its legal status now, the federal government was moving quickly this week to prepare for additional discounts, and to send the goals of reducing employees to health and science agencies and more.
The recently appointed Federal employees work on the test for the first year (or more in some agencies) and it is easy to shoot during that time. The Trump administration appears to be preparing to reduce the workforce by targeting these workers. Several agencies It has already been requested to share the lists of these weak employees.
But even with the unique demobilization of workers, Mr. Musk’s goal of providing the major budget cannot easily be achieved through employee discounts without discounts in workers who provide popular public services.
The average salary of federal workers is about 106,000 dollars, which means that the annual savings of salary alone, only to use 65,000 workers as a standard, can reach about 6.9 billion dollars annually to reduce government spending 4 billion dollars a day). Congress Budget Office He has estimated That the government spent approximately 271 billion dollars to compensate Federal Civil employees in 2022, with more than half of that going to the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Security.
Among the agencies in which the discounts may be established politically, the affairs of the old warriors are the largest employer in the government. VA runs a network of hospitals and health clinics across the country for old military warriors. The section has I have already exempted hundreds of thousands of these health care workers From the freezing of employment at the government level, President Trump announced on his first day in his post.
Mr. Trump also gave many other categories of workers shown above, including in the Ministry of Internal Security, which implement migration enforcement, and in the Ministry of Defense.
He also told the Tax Authority this week that some of the employees who are trying to resign now were unable to take a vacation under postponed resignation Even after May 15A clear recognition that the collective departure now can disrupt the tax deposit season for millions of Americans.