Fact check: Did Clinton set the precedent for mass federal worker buyouts?

Rachel Greszler, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, told PolitiFact that Trump's programme is more generous than Clinton's. Clinton's $25,000 offer is equivalent to approximately $55,000 in today's dollars [File: Leah Millis/Reuters]

As unions and Democrats denounced the Trump administration’s effort to slash the federal workforce through worker buyouts, some social media users have said the president’s actions parallel those of former President Bill Clinton.

“To all you Democrats freaking out over President Trump’s buyout programme, I present to you a piece of history,” LD Basler, a retired federal law enforcement officer, wrote on X. His post quoted a 1995 statement Clinton made a year after he signed the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act.