The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is offering hefty financial incentives for nearly all civilian full-time federal workers to resign as part of plans to drastically shrink the size of the government.

The email is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees.

The White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans, according to an internal memorandum sent Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to send a memo offering to pay through Sept. 30 all federal workers who don't want to return to the office, as long as they resign by Feb. 6, Axios reported Tuesday,

The White House will give agencies two weeks to plan for the return of federal workers to the office, implementing an order President Donald Trump signed on the first day of his term to end Covid-era work-from-home accommodations.

The White House’s plan to offer “deferred resignations” that pay departing federal employees their salary through Sept. 30 will likely run afoul of rules governing buyout payments.