To streamline the government apparatus and reduce state expenditures was one of President Donald Trump's more prominent election promises. The offer of severance pay equivalent to eight months' salary, which recently landed in approximately 2 million government employees' mailboxes, aims to deliver on this.
To take advantage of the proposal, the employee must respond to the email and write the word "resign" (approximately "leave office") in the subject line, writes The New York Times. The program is specifically targeted at people who work from home and are not fond of Donald Trump's new policy that orders office work. Approximately 2.3 million Americans have the federal state as their employer, but only 6 percent of them work full-time in an office.
The Trump administration expects that around 10 percent of those asked will take advantage of the offer, according to sources for CBS News. If this happens, it is estimated to result in savings of 100 billion dollars.
Discussion
opens with reader accounts