The Interior Department is offering employees another round of incentives to resign from their jobs.
A memo sent Friday from Stephanie Holmes, Interior’s acting chief human capital officer, to all assistant secretaries and agency heads says eligible employees who wish to voluntarily resign or retire can retain all pay and benefits regardless of their workloads through Sept. 30.
The offer marks the latest round of such incentives as part of the Trump administration’s broader push to downsize the federal workforce. The Trump administration and its so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have vowed to make steep reductions in the size of the government.
The offer, which runs through Wednesday, is not available to wildland firefighters; law enforcement officials; or staffers with special permitting authority involving oil and gas, mining and timber harvesting, and other “positions that are critical to public safety or that are directly linked to the highest priority programs contributing to the achievement of the Department’s mission,” according to the memo obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News.
