It's less a buyout and more of a "deferred resignation" and federal workers aren't happy about it.

The White House has introduced a buyout offer for federal employees unwilling to return to in-person work under President Trump’s directive to end remote work policies. With over 2 million federal employees,

The government’s human resources agency also said it would begin subjecting all federal employees to “enhanced standards of suitability and conduct” and ominously warned of future downsizing.

"Between the flurry of anti-worker executive orders and policies, it is clear that the Trump administration's goal is to turn the federal government into a toxic environment where workers cannot stay even if they want to.

Federal workers who don’t want to return to the office will be offered buyouts Tuesday, a Trump administration official told CNN.

President Donald Trump has told federal workers to either return to the office or quit. It looks like Elon Musk’s strategy when he bought Twitter. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management made all federal employees a deferred resignation offer Tuesday as it ramps up its return-to-office push.

President Donald Trump's offer to buyout federal employees appears to be taking the lead of Elon Musk's playbook for overhauling in X in 2023.