The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is drafting plans to slash roughly 50% of its 90,000-person staff, the Associated Press reports.
According to the outlet, the workforce reductions will consist of “layoffs, attrition and incentivized buyouts.”
#BREAKING: IRS plans to cut up to 45,000 workers from its roughly 90,000-person workforce – AP
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From the Associated Press:
The layoffs are part of the Trump Administration’s efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce through billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency by closing agencies, laying off nearly all probationary employees who have not yet gained civil service protection and offering buyouts to almost all federal employees through a “deferred resignation program” to quickly reduce the government
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