Today, USAID staff received another email from the agency’s front office — one that claimed that if they resign, staff will continue to receive government pay and benefits until Sept. 30, 2025, “without any expectation of performing work.”
The email, seen by Devex, is just one of several from the Office of Personnel Management, the federal agency that’s been encouraging staff across the government to “move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.”
“We’d love to have them leave,” said United States President Donald Trump, speaking from the Oval Office last week. “It’s our dream to have everybody, almost, working in the private sector not in the public sector.”