There will be some government employees who will take President Donald J. Trump up on his generous offer to voluntarily resign and continue to be paid for the next eight months, however, there are other more malicious workers who are plotting to defy the buyout to spite him.
With the Trump administration and the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) expected to undertake a major housecleaning, the president is giving those who may be impacted a chance to take the money and enjoy a paid period of transitioning into another career.
There is however a reluctance among some leftists to be displaced from their cushy jobs where they have been allowed to work from home and they are taking to Reddit to share their intentions to resist Trump by continuing to work to oppose him. In short, exactly the type of employees that need to be sent packing.
Federal workers are calling Trump a domestic enemy and refusing to take the 8 months severance. pic.twitter.com/atJIkGHz9z
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) January 29, 2025
Federal freeloaders took to the subreddit r/fednews to share their intention to resist with like-minded users.
“I’ll be honest, before that email went out, I was looking for any way to get out of this fresh hell,” read one popular post which has drawn over 36,000 upvotes. “But now I am fired up to make these goons as frustrated as possible, RTO be damned.”
“They can’t fire us as easily as they thought, so they are trying to scare us into quitting, don’t fall for it!” A user wrote in a post that was upvoted more than 16,000 times.
Another post that got over 44,000 upvotes claimed that the leftist leeches are the “last line of defense against fascism” and “If we leave, we will be replaced by loyalists.”
“We took an oath to serve our country and fellow Americans. They can drag me out,” another user wrote.
Some elected Democrats are openly encouraging resistance from the party’s loyal foot soldiers who are riddled throughout the sprawling federal bureaucracy.
To federal employees eyeing Trump’s federal employee buyout scheme, consider this:
We don’t even have a budget in place. Trump lacks the appropriations to fund his promises.
Buyout authority has a $25K limitation, by law.
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) January 29, 2025
Trump sows chaos in federal workforce then says “resign within a week and I’ll give you 7 months severance.” Don’t fall for it! Trump told innumerable contractors he’d pay—then stiffed them. He has no authority to promise severance pay. Wait him out!https://t.co/frtYnVOqbA
— Senator Tim Kaine (@SenTimKaine) January 29, 2025
On Wednesday, Trump said that workers who don’t return to the office by next week’s deadline will be fired.
BREAKING: All federal employees who do not work in person by February 6 will get FIRED – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/YczfjbXmGd
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 29, 2025
“We have informed the federal workforce that if they’re working for the federal government, they must show up to the office on time and on schedule,” Trump said during a Wednesday White House event, adding. “If they don’t agree by February 6 to show up back to work in their office, they will be terminated.”
The president predicted that a “very substantial number of people will not show up to work” which will make the government “smaller and more efficient.”
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