Donald Trump government has offered a voluntary dismissal plan to more than 2 million Federal Administration officials. Those who accept the proposal will have payment guaranteed for eight months, according to an email sent by the White House Personnel Management office on Wednesday, 29.
The offer contemplates most of the 2.3 million federal government servants. According to the White House Memorandum, workers who accept the resignation will have their duties eliminated or relocated immediately and will be on paid administrative license by the end of September, the last month of the American fiscal year.
The servers have until next Thursday, February 6, to join voluntary dismissal, the most radical measure of the new administration to reduce personnel spending. The offer comes at the time the government officials received orders to resume face -to -face work and face resignation threats.
“At the moment, we cannot guarantee with total guarantee the security of your position or your body, but if your position is eliminated you will be treated with dignity and will be entitled to existing protections for these situations,” said the email, titled “Crossroads”.
Elon Musk, responsible for the Government Efficiency Department (Doge of the Acronym), described the offer of compensation as “very generous” in the X -publication, his social network. In another post, it shared that between 5 and 10% of eligible employees must accept the proposal.
Previously, Musk defended “massive reductions” in the federal servers, promising that the department would work with US agencies to “identify the minimum number of employees” needed to perform essential functions.
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A spokesman for the Personnel Management Office said the White House did not set a goal for the number of employees who expected them to leave.
“If, at the end of this process, we can convert civil servants to private sector workers, helping to increase our GDP and strengthen national production … This will probably be a good thing,” said Deputy Andy Harris (Maryland Republican). “In the short term, are there people in my district who can lose their federal jobs? Yes. But we are in an economically vibrant region and these people must find other opportunities. ”
Republicans defend cuts as necessary, while democrats criticize them as a threat to democracy. Democratic party legislators and unions advised government officials not to adhere to voluntary dismissal.
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“Expuring the federal government of dedicated employees will have immense and unintentional consequences, causing chaos for Americans who depend on a government working,” said Everett Kelley, president of the American Government employees, the largest federal servers union.
“Between the flood of executive and political orders against workers, it is clear that the goal of the Trump administration is to transform the federal government into a toxic environment, where workers cannot remain even if they want.”
Experts warn that dismissal offering can lead to a wave of pensions, discouraging newly graduates to join government and flood the private and non-profit sectors with employment candidates.
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The reduction of the central public machine in Trump’s campaign, a critic of the bureaucracy he often called corrupt and accused Republicans. “Most of these bureaucrats are being fired. They go away, ”he said in a speech to supporters on inauguration day.
In the early days of government, he froze hiring, except for the military and essential areas of the government, ordered the return to face -to -face work and eliminated the programs to promote diversity in public office.
Settings to cut spending plunged programs that fund schools, provide housing and guarantee the access of low-income people to medical care on chaos, on Tuesday while agencies tried to understand Trump’s order that freezes all subsidies, loans and assists from government.
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The measure, according to the White House document, aimed to ensure that the resources were in accordance with the “priorities of the president”. Minutes before it came into force, the court temporarily blocked the government order.
