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The Internal Revenue Service to its employees: voluntarily leave your job or risk getting fired later.On Tuesday morning, the IRS sent an email to its employees — a copy of which was reviewed by Business Insider — offering three “voluntary separation programs”:A second and final deferred resignation program offering employees…
After all the hullabaloo about fired federal workers, many are now back at work — sort of.They’re on paid administrative leave after a court ordered the Trump administration reinstate roughly 25,000 of them.Ten of them spoke to BI about the whiplash of their careers and financial lives.The latest twist in…
Ben Gibson moved from Idaho to Washington, DC, to work with the US Department of Veterans Affairs.In five months, DOGE terminated his job along with thousands of other probationary federal workers.Gibson said he just received an email and was let go the same day with no clarity.This as-told-to essay is…
Several recently fired federal workers are set to attend Trump’s joint address to Congress.They’ll be there as the guests of Democratic members of Congress.BI spoke with one of them, whose job was to root out waste in Medicare.In February, Matthew Fessler was one of thousands of probationary employees fired by…