About 75,000 federal workers accepted the Trump administration’s retirement buyout offer, allowing them to receive full pay and benefits until Sept. 30 while being exempt from daily attendance rules and layoffs.
The figure was confirmed to The Epoch Times by a senior administration official after it was first reported by Semafor.
The 75,000 figure represents approximately slightly below four percent of the 2.3 million federal civil service workforce, not all of whom were eligible for the buyout offer. On average, 98,669 federal employees retired annually between 2000 and 2023, according to data compiled by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
The difference is the Trump buyout offer—officially known as the Deferred Retirement Program (DRP)—was accepted on average by 6,250 employees each day during the abbreviated offer period of January 28 to February 12….