President Trump and Elon Musk are facing a growing backlash against their effort to reshape the government. Some workers say the efforts breach civil service protections and congressional protocols. Some 20,000 federal workers have accepted buyout offers from the Trump administration. NBC News' Peter Alexander reports.
The Central Intelligence Agency has offered so-called buyouts to its workforce, a CIA spokesperson said, the latest move by the Trump administration to overhaul and scale back the federal government. The offer of eight months of pay and benefits is similar to deferred resignation offers proposed to employees at other federal agencies. But at the CIA, some employees — including those handling high-priority tasks — will not be eligible for the offer.
During his confirmation hearing, Ratcliffe promised to keep politics out of decisions involving intelligence and said he wouldn’t use loyalty tests as a basis for hiring or firing CIA personnel. “These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy, provide opportunities for rising leaders to emerge, and better position the CIA to deliver on its mission,” the CIA spokesperson said.
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