BREAKING: Over 100,000 Federal Workers RESIGNED Today!
Can you feel the fat being gutted away?
How about 100,000 less federal workers sucking off the Government cheese?
It’s a beautiful thing and it happened this morning:
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MASSIVE: Over 100,000 federal employees are reportedly set to resign tomorrow in the largest mass resignation in U.S. history under President Trump’s plan to cut the federal workforce. pic.twitter.com/jXDmUAddOk
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 29, 2025
But now let’s get into the details because while this report IS true, it might not be exactly what you think.
This all ties into the deferred resignations, not necessarily related in any way to the Government shutdown.
FedWeek explained:
While the impending September 30 end of the current fiscal year brings a threat of a potential partial government shutdown, for many federal employees it will bring a more definite change: the end of their “deferred resignation” periods.
That is the most common deadline under both the original government-wide offer—which kept employees in paid status on administrative leave up to a set separation date—and individual agency-specific offers that followed. In some cases, agencies allowed for a later date in order for employees to qualify for retirement benefits.
OPM’s most recent count is that nearly 300,000 positions will be eliminated by the end of this year—about an eighth of the total as of the start of the year.
That number includes some 275,000 due to: normal attrition as a general hiring freeze has remained in effect (with various exceptions); deferred resignation; and acceptance of other types of incentives, such as standard buyouts and/or early retirement offers.
Although OPM did not break out the figures, the large majority of those likely are leaving under deferred resignation; OPM over the summer put the acceptance figure for those offers at above 150,000. Some already have left that status, for example to take other jobs; ethics restrictions including those against outside employment still apply during deferred resignation.