President Donald Trump’s offer for federal employees to resign from their posts has already been accepted by more than 50,000 workers, according to a person familiar with the effort.
Now the administration is signaling a tougher posture in its bid to shrink the government’s workforce, asking federal agencies to draw up lists of their poorest performing employees by March 7.
The Office of Personnel Management has instructed agencies to provide lists of “all employees who received less than a ‘fully successful’ performance rating in the past three years.” The memo, from OPM acting director Charles Ezell, said ...
