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Labor union members hold placards on the day of a rally in support of federal workers during a rush hour protest outside the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 24, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura

150 K, this is the number of workers leaving the Federal workforce on mass. No analytical methodology to determine how to improve government efficiency and cut down the number of extraneous workers through retirement but rather an Off with their Heads approach was done to solve the problem at hand.

John Tenniel's illustration of the King and Queen of Hearts
at the trial of the Knave of Hearts

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years, triggering what unions and governance experts warn is a damaging loss of institutional expertise.

The official resignations begin on Tuesday for workers who opted into a deferred exit program that kept them on the payroll through September. The buyouts are a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s push to shrink the federal workforce, combining financial incentives with threats of dismissal for those who declined the offer.

Many left their agencies months ago, according to the federal government's HR office, and have effectively been on paid leave.

Don Moynihan, a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, said the biggest impact of this week's exodus will be the brain drain of so many experienced civil servants, a loss of talent he says will be hard to reverse.

"It takes years to develop deep knowledge and expertise to deliver government programs these people run. Now much of the knowledge is walking out the door," Moynihan said.

The loss of expertise is making it harder for many agencies to carry out their work and serve the American public, according to interviews with a dozen current and former government employees and union officials.

But don't worry, Grok will replace all the workers without issue even though proper integration of AI into government operations has not been throughly thought out as this kind of process takes time and expertise to make it happen, something stated with eloquence in Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man Month.