[Epoch Times] Federal government employees are embracing resignation offers made by the Trump administration, a senior White House official said on Jan. 31.
"A large number of federal workers have accepted the buyout offer," Stephen Miller told reporters. "And I think the point here to really underscore is that federal workers who are not happy in their jobs, who don’t want to show up at work, who do not want to be in the office, who are not passionate about what they’re doing, are obviously not the kind of federal worker you want responsible for having enormous authority over the lives of the American people."
Benefits offered to those resigning by Feb. 6 include full pay and benefits even if workload is greatly diminished. Individuals can pursue second jobs immediately, and vacation and personal leave days will continue to accrue and be paid out on the last paycheck, according to a statement from the OPM.
Employees who accept the offer sign resignation letters effective Sept. 30, 2025. Agency heads are directed to reassign or eliminate the duties of those who choose to resign.
Many who opt to stay in their position are ordered to return to in-office work environments for five days a week. No guarantees are made for future job stability.
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No guarantees are made for future job stability.
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@#3 - I'd like to know also. Let's say 2.5 million were eligible. "Large" to me would be 10% of that. My SWAG is between 5 and 10%.
Very attractive offer for someone like me who plans to retire in 8 months. Alas - I'm excluded (I think...). I also agree w/@#4 - there's gonna be a bunch that wish they took the deal.
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but someone should define 'large number'
Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity.
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In the private sector, we used to say after a large job elimination "the living will envy the dead." But then again, we were expected to deliver results regardless of employee numbers.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Biden administration — in its final weeks — quietly stacked a key health committee in a move that could sabotage Robert F Kennedy Jr's vaccine plans.
The former President approved the appointments of eight pro-vaccine candidates to a critical committee that is influential in setting America's immunization policies.
Sources say the flood of 11th-hour appointments, with terms lasting until 2028, is an attempt to block RFK Jr from rolling out his antivax agenda.
At his senate confirmation hearing this week, RFK Jr repeatedly assured members he would not do anything 'that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking' the polio or measles vaccines.
But sources fear Kennedy — or whoever replaces him, should the Senate reject his bid to be head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — could simply fire the committee members, who all have at-will contracts.
However, he has often argued the risks outweigh the benefits of many childhood shots and this week he refused to rule out that some may cause autism in children.
A former senior Health and Human Services Department official told STAT News the flurry of confirmations to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was ‘very intentional.’
They added: ‘It was our goal to fill every vacancy on every [federal advisory committee] the department has, with particular focus on ones like ACIP where maintenance of our scientific expertise was critical.’
But sources fear Kennedy — or whoever replaces him, should the Senate reject his bid to be head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — could simply fire the committee members, who all have at-will contracts.
Yes. Do that — the gun to the former Biden administration’s knife fight (because it most assuredly was not President Joe Biden who thought up the plan, vicious though the poor man was and no doubt still is. In fact, shut down all those advisory committees until a review concludes which ones are actually necessary for this particular HHS secretary.
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How can anyone point a finger at Biden?
Given Joe Biden's extremely well known and documented mental vacancy issue.
Its the Biden Regime stolen election puppet masters that are still trying to manipulate and control the direction of the US Gov. operations. Because, they know their hour glass is running out of sand.
Give the history of such failed political revolutionary groups resorting to extreme measures. What will be their last BIG Hail Mary stunt?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The White House is calling on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to apologize after the New York Democrat vowed to fight the Trump agenda 'in the streets.'
Jeffries made his remarks during a press conference in New York on Friday morning where the lawmaker and others gathered to blast the new administration's attempts to freeze federal funding earlier this week.
Surrounded by officials from programs that could have been impacted by the freeze of grants and loans, Jeffries claimed New Yorkers and Americans are 'under assault by an extreme MAGA Republican agenda.'
He said that agenda is trying to cut taxes for billionaire donors and wealthy corporations and stick New Yorkers and the working class Americans with the bill.
'That's not acceptable. We're going to fight it legislatively, we are going to fight it in the courts, and we're going to fight it in the streets,' Jeffries said.
But the White House responded by calling his comments a 'sick call for violence' and claimed it 'incited his followers.'
'Will Minority Leader Jeffries apologize for this disgusting threat?' the White House put out in a release.
'Or will he double down on the same calls for violence that have plagued the country for years?' it continued.
To All Liberals, Socialists and Democrats.
The Real Voters have spoken. Any and ALL Wasteful, Unnecessary spending is under review subject cut by duly elected MAGA focused representatives.
Its time to reel in the US Federal Budget to represent collected revenues. Instead of "continuing" to spend $TRILLIONS more than is collected each year.
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So can we expect Antifa to start ramping up their activities again?
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02/01/2025 12:10 Comments ||
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They only ever acted in jurisdictions where they would not be held accountable. If the Feds are not on their side, they will not be active even in Dem cities. They also know that Trump will put them in the domestic terrorist list with little encouragement. Too many Dems and Feds are involved in their activities so ANTIFA will do nothing for the foreseeable future.
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Sounds like this guy needs to be relieved of duty.
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can we expect Antifa to start ramping up their activities again?
I’m sure that’s the plan, Abu Uluque. But the tolerance they require evaporated with this election, so hopefully we’ll quickly see lots of arrests and serious jail sentences — especially for those from elsewhere, whether legal or illegal.
Except for Democrat-controlled cities and states, which will see accelerated population loss, until the Justice Department turns its attention in that direction.
[FoxNews] 13 Democratic state attorneys general rebuffed the curtailing of DEI roles
The new federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Friday that taxpayers will see just over a $1 billion savings through the elimination of 104 diversity, equity and inclusion-related (DEI) contracts.
As of Wednesday, DOGE had recorded the cancellation of 85 "DEIA" contracts from 25 federal agencies. By Friday afternoon, that number had grown to 104 contracts totaling $1,000,060,792, according to a DOGE news release.
Of note, 21 Department of the Treasury contracts were canceled, saving a total of $25,247,783. In second place was the Department of Health & Human Services, which canceled 15 contracts worth $28,187,448.
While the Office of Personnel Management only had three contracts canceled, the dollar figure was pinned at a whopping $494,956,233, an average of about $165 million per DEI contract.
The other agencies with the most contracts canceled by the Trump administration include Agriculture with 11 and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Homeland Security with seven each.
According to a release Monday from the Department of Veterans Affairs, 60 employees whose roles were solely focused on DEI were placed on administrative leave, and spokesperson Morgan Ackley said the administration is "laser focused on providing the best possible care and benefits to Veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors."
"We are proud to have abandoned the divisive DEI policies of the past and pivot back to VA’s core mission," Ackley said.
The rapid-fire DEI contract eliminations come one week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the endeavors, officially described as "ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity."
Some workers at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have received a letter from the agency warning them that they may face termination amid the Trump administration's efforts to scale back the government, FOX Business has learned.
The email, which was sent to 1,100 EPA employees on Wednesday according to the email reviewed by FOX Business, notifies workers that they were deemed to be on probationary status or are in a trial period as an employee and could be terminated immediately.
That’s about 7% of the total, if I didn’t misplace the decimal. Presumably this technique can be reapplied to the rest of the executive branch, which is the largest employer of the 3 million or so workers on the federal payroll. How very clever of someone.
It instructs recipients to respond to an EPA email address only if they have one or more years of previous civilian service or are a veteran – though it warns that "confirming that one or more of these categories applies to you is not determinative of your probationary/trial period status. Each employee's status will be determined individually."
"As a probationary/trial employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you pursuant to 5 CFR § 315.804," the email explained. "The process for probationary removal is that you receive a notice of termination, and your employment is ended immediately."
The vice president sat down with Fox News where he discussed the creation of so-called DOGE which will is being led by tech billionaire Elon Musk.
Trump announced DOGE after winning the November election before taking office. He said it would be created to cut down government waste.
'The most important thing it's going to do, I don't even think it's the cost savings,' Vance told Sean Hannity in the interview.
'It's making the bureaucracy responsive to elected president,' the vice president continued.
'If you look at okay, the president issues an executive order saying we're not going to give grants to organizations that do X, Y and Z and the bureaucracy just does not respond, DOGE has identified grants that were going to be made in violation of an executive order and stop them before the money is wired,' Vance claimed.
He argued it 'makes the people's government responsive to the people's president.'
[DailyWire] The final vote was 79-18, with many Democrat members joining with their Republican colleagues in supporting Governor Doug Burgum’s (North Dakota) nomination to the Cabinet role in Trump’s second term. Another three senators did not vote.
Burgum ran for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2024 race, but dropped out and endorsed Trump. He was reportedly a finalist to become Trump’s running mate before now-Vice President JD Vance got the nod.
Burgum advanced out of committee by an 18-2 vote. His final confirmation vote was very bipartisan, but it fell short of the unanimous show of support that Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... received.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and EPA head Lee Zeldin have also been confirmed.
Other nominees are still working their way through the Senate. Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... have sought to impede the confirmation process, such as forcing procedural votes, an effort that has earned stern rebukes from the GOP.
Among the next Cabinet picks poised to get a confirmation vote is Christopher Wright, Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy. Wright was also chosen to serve as a member of the National Energy Council.
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Seems like Burgam and Zeldin went too easy. I would like to see Keystone approved on the double. If all the Biden clowns are still on the payroll who were monument creating and homeowner harassers in a month, Trump has made a mistake.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Epoch Times] Federal government employees are embracing resignation offers made by the Trump administration, a senior White House official said on Jan. 31.
...every time you hear the phrase 
