A historic wave of retirements and other departures has swept through the federal workforce in recent months, putting enormous strain on agencies as they cope with a new government shutdown and administration layoffs.
This mass exodus
— unprecedented in its scale
— includes 154,000 federal employees who accepted buyout offers and were largely removed from the payroll as of the end of last month.
Some of those are among nearly 105,000 employees who took regular retire…
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