Trump administration offers buyouts to federal employees
Peter Doocy, Fox News, reports the last about the offer of the White House. Doocy and the co-hosts of ‘Fox & Friends’ also discuss the decision to get the security detail of Gen. Mark Milley and the first press conference of Karoline Leavitt.
The Central Intelligence AgencyIn what officials reportedly claimed an attempt to bring the agency in line with the agenda of Trump, Buyouts offered to her entire staff on Tuesday.
The Wall Street Journal Reported that the agency is the first to tell its employees that they can stop and get eight months of wages and benefits.
Last month, the Trump administration Offered about 2 million buyouts from federal employees who have to be paid until September, although the window to accept the offer closes on Thursday.
While the Trump administration made offers to around 2 million federal employees, some categories were exempt from the benefit of the buy -out, including federal employees with national security roles.
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The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency is shown at the entrance of the CIA head office in McLean, from. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
CIA director John Ratcliffe reportedly told the White house To extend the same offer to employees within the CIA, in the hope that it could pave the way for “an aggressive” agency, an assistant told the Wall Street Journal.
Fox News learned that although the CIA was exempt, Ratcliffe personally decided that he wanted the agency to participate.
On Thursday he e -mailed the Office of Persnel Management and asked for a process that would enable the CIA to e -mail his staff and to offer the same opportunity, while also retaining flexibility to work by the timing of Departure of employees in critical areas.
Ratcliffe also chose to offer early retirement to long-term officers, while they also stop attracting every officer who was offered a job during the Biden administration to ensure that their position is in line with The priorities of the Trump administration.
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The nominee of President Donald Trump for CIA director John Ratcliffe appears for a hearing of the senate information about Capitol Hill, January 15, 2025, in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
“Director Ratcliffe is quickly moving to ensure that the CIA staff respond to the national security priorities of the administration,” a CIA spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “These movements are part of a holistic strategy to collapse the agency with renewed energy, offering opportunities to rising leaders to stand up and to better position the CIA to deliver his mission.”
The Office of Personnel Management, which operates on January 28 as the personnel department of the federal government, has informed about 2 million federal employees that they should work out of their respective offices five days a week, or they could leave their roles by the Equivalent of a buyout offer. The deadline to accept the offer is February 6.
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Those who choose to accept the offer retain all wages and benefits and are exempt from personal work until 30 September.
During the first week of Trump, he issued various guidelines on the federal workforce, including a requirement that employees have to return remotely to personal work.
