the Central Intelligence AgencyIn what officials claimed it was an effort to make the agency in line with the Trump agenda, it has offered purchases for its entire employees on Tuesday.
the Wall Street Journal She stated that the agency is the first to inform its employees that they can quit smoking and get eight months of wages and benefits.
Last month, Trump administration It has offered about 2 million federal employees to be paid during September, although the window for accepting the offer is closed on Thursday.
While the Trump administration has made offers for about two million federal workers, some groups have been exempt from benefiting from the acquisition, including federal workers with national security roles.
The White House expects a “rise” in federal resignations, as at least 20,000 takes acquisitions
The Central Intelligence Agency seal appears at the entrance to the headquarters of the CIA in McLean, Virginia. (Reuters/Evlin Hakstein)
According to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe White House To expand the same offer to employees within the CIA, hoping that he would be able to pave the way for a “more aggressive” agency, one of the assistants told the Wall Street Journal.
Fox News learned that although the CIA was exempt, Ratcliffe personally decided that he wanted to share the agency.
On Thursday, he sent an email to the Personnel Management Office and requested an operation that enables the Central Intelligence Agency to send it by email to the workforce and provide the same opportunity, while also maintaining flexibility to work through the timing of the departure of employees in the critical areas.
Ratcliffe also chose to provide an early retirement option for employees who have been long secured, with stopping any late officer during the Biden administration to ensure the compatibility of their position with the Trump administration's priorities.
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President Donald Trump's candidate appears to the director of the CIA John Ratcliffe in a confirmation session of the Senate in Capitol Hill, January 15, 2025, in Washington, DC, (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“Director Ratcliffe is moving quickly to ensure the response of the Workforce of the CIA to the National Security Priorities for Administration,” said a spokesman for the CIA of Fox News Digital. “These moves are part of a comprehensive strategy to stimulate the agency through renewable energy, provide opportunities for the increasing leaders to appear, and a better position to the CIA in its mission.”
The Personnel Management Office, which works as the Ministry of Human Resources affiliated with the federal government, had taken a notification of about two million federal employees on January 28 that they will be asked to work from their offices for five days a week, or they can leave their roles through the equivalent of the acquisition offer. The deadline for accepting the offer is February 6.
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Those who choose to take the offer will keep all wages and benefits and are exempt from personal work until September 30.
During the first week of Trump in his post, he issued many directives for the federal workforce, including a condition for employees to a distance to return to personal work.
