IRS to Lose Up to 5,000 Workers to Deferred Resignation Bid (1)

Between 4% and 5% of the IRS workforce have taken the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer, the leader of the agency’s union said.

Between 4,000 and 5,000 IRS employees accepted the bid by billionaire Elon Musk, who is advising the administration, to lure federal workers to resign and continue being paid until Sept. 30, said Doreen Greenwald, national president of National Treasury Employees Union. The IRS has about 100,000 employees.

“The treatment of federal employees since Jan. 20 has been horrendous,” Greenwald said, speaking at the union’s legislative conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. “They feel attacked. They feel demoralized. So ...