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Trump offers federal workers buyout, promises eight months severance pay

The Trump administration says it sent the buyout offers to more than two million people working in the federal government, which now employs more than three million people [File: Erin Scott/Reuters]

United States President Donald Trump has offered most federal workers the option to leave their government jobs by next week in exchange for eight months of severance pay in his most profound and rapid move yet to overhaul the government.

The buyout offer was announced on Tuesday in a memorandum issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as Trump seeks to fulfil one of his campaign promises to shrink the government.

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