{"id":47983,"date":"2025-09-28T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=47983"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:57:53","slug":"more-than-100000-federal-workers-to-quit-on-tuesday-in-largest-ever-mass-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=47983","title":{"rendered":"more than 100,000 federal workers to quit on Tuesday in largest ever mass resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Latest departures in Trump administration\u2019s deferred resignation program come as Congress faces government shutdown deadline \u2013 key US politics stories from Sunday 28 September<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">More than 100,000 federal workers are to formally resign on Tuesday, the largest such mass event in US history, as part of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>&nbsp;program designed to make sweeping cuts to the federal workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">With Congress facing a deadline of Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/27\/government-shutdown-explainer\">government shutdown<\/a>, the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers if the partisan fight fails to yield a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Workers preparing to leave the government have described how months of \u201cfear and intimidation\u201d left them feeling like they had no choice but to depart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cFederal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they\u2019re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave,\u201d a longtime employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) told the Guardian. \u201cThat\u2019s why I left.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/29\/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today\">theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest departures in Trump administration\u2019s deferred resignation program come as Congress faces government shutdown deadline \u2013 key US politics stories from Sunday 28 September More than 100,000 federal workers are to formally resign on Tuesday, the largest such mass event in US history, as part of a&nbsp;Trump administration&nbsp;program designed to make sweeping cuts to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":47984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[21812,22698,1564,3734],"class_list":["post-47983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-fema","tag-government-shutdown","tag-layoffs","tag-resignation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47985,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47983\/revisions\/47985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}