Federal employees have a midnight deadline to include the Trump administration on its 'buyout' deal, but hardly a fraction of those who have accepted the deal so far.
According to an administration officer, more than 40,000 employees have accepted the deferred dismissal offer from Wednesday. That is about 2 percent of the two million, given the option.
That number is growing, but the official said that they will probably not give an extra number update until Friday.
As a billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency Team, it comes to reduce the federal workforce as part of their guideline to reduce $ 2 trillion on federal expenses. But their efforts can be difficult.
The offer as presented by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) gave all federal employees the option to resign from their current position, but remained on the payroll with all the benefits until 30 September.
The E -mail gave knowledge that most federal employees had to work again five days a week. For those who have accepted the offer, they would be exempt from personal work requirements.
Federal employees were sent an e-mail for the first time with the so-called 'buyout' offer on January 28.
But many federal employees and some democratic legislators have expressed concern about the validity of the offer.
More than 40,000 federal employees have accepted the 'buyout' deal prior to the deadline of the midnight, because the team of billionaire Elon Musk tries to reduce the federal workforce
Employees were instructed to easily send an e -mail from their government accounts with the word 'dismissal' in the E -mail topic to accept the offer.
At the same time, those who chose to stay in their functions were informed by OpM that they could not get 'complete certainty' that their position or freedom of choice would not be eliminated.
Earlier this week, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents hundreds of thousands of federal employees and others, suggested the Deadline of 6 February of 6 February.
They claimed that the plan is to remove and replace employees in the public services from the career with partisan loyalists and argued that the offer a threat to employees to resign or lose it in the future without losing compensation.
“Federal employees should not be misled by slick talking of non -selected billionaires and their lakeien,” said President Everett Kelley.
'Despite the opposite of the claims, this deferred dismissal scheme is not financed, unlawful and has no guarantees. We will not be over and let our members become the victim of this scammer, “he continued in a statement.
Federal employees will be confronted with a deadline for midnight on 6 February to accept an offer of personnel management for deferred dismissal, but some have expressed concern about the validity of the deal
Federal employees reported that the original offer 'Buyout' was followed by a series of other Emails, because the administration increases the pressure on employees to close the deal.
But thousands of federal employees have indicated that they intend to stay in their positions for as long as possible.
Some have used the offer as a rally group to 'hold the line' and have warned fellow federal employees, not giving.
