‘Hold the line, don’t resign’: Federal workers encourage each other not to accept Trump’s buyout offer

The Trump administration has offered a buyout to around 2 million federal employees and claims they can stop working and still receive pay through the end of September, but workers are rallying each other on Reddit to stay onboard, arguing their presence is “the last line of defense against fascism.”

“We watched this goon try to overthrow the government on live tv four years ago,” one poster, whose comments have been upvoted tens of thousands of times on r/fednews, wrote. “Now, we are witnessing him try to overthrow it from within.”