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Same offer that expires tonight, they were just told they're not excluded.
Apparently 40k (out of all feds) are taking it, but spread out between now and then those don't match normal retirement numbers.
So it's a safe bet the ones taking it were already planning on retiring before then, and not everyone who's retiring trusts it.
Most agencies can't even say when someone would be released from work duties if they accept.
Im making an educated guess that there’s a decent amount of those 40k employees that were actually facing disciplinary actions or termination and are using it as a way to possibly avoid it.
I'm making an educated guess that the 40,000 number is a complete exaggeration. That number is coming from Trump and Musk, not an actual spreadsheet or database. Look at by how much he exaggerated the square footage of his penthouse in Trump Tower, or the size of his crowd at his inauguration.