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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. United States Department of the Interior logo and U.S. flag are seen in this illustration taken April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic ...

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 ...

Thousands of energy and environmental agency staffers left their jobs under a Trump administration program aimed at slashing the size of the federal workforce. More than 10,700 employees resigned from ...

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 ...