White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied claims that the Trump administration’s federal worker buyout program is a “purge” of critics. Federal employees received emails offering a “deferred resignation program,
”allowing them to quit by February 6 while receiving pay and benefits through September. Leavitt defended the plan as a push to get workers back to the office, calling it “overwhelmingly popular” outside Washington,…
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