Tim Whitehouse, the executive director at the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit that provides legal services to federal workers, said he had been fielding calls on the resignation request since it became public.
“The employees we are speaking to view this email as another tool to inflict pain and trauma on the federal government workforce,” Whitehouse said via email. “They understand this is not really a buyout, that it may be illegal, and that it does not guarantee that they will be able to stop work before September 30th. Because of the number of agencies and employees targeted, it shows the administration’s blow it all up approach to reducing the size of the federal workforce.”
