The federal government is paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work as part of the deferred resignation program, an administration official confirmed to ABC News. The updated figure, ...

More than 150,000 federal employees could officially leave the U.S. payroll on Tuesday after accepting buyouts under the Trump administration’s Deferred Resignation Program. Many of these workers ...

The federal government is reportedly paying more than 154,000 employees not to report to work under the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program. Thousands have been receiving pay since ...

The Trump administration is paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work as a result of its deferred resignation program, part of a larger effort to slash the government workforce. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...