Large Number of Federal Workers Taking Buyout Offer, White House Official Says

Millions of federal workers received deferred resignation offers in a memorandum distributed on Jan. 28.

White House deputy chief of staff for policy and US homeland security advisor Stephen Miller (C) speaks to members of the press outside the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington, DC on January 28, 2025. Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP

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.”