When a federal worker takes this buyout, the 8 months pay still comes out of the budget of whatever office/department they were employed by. So many of our federal institutions are already cash strapped right now due to funding cuts and straight up DOGE sabotage.

When these workers take the buyout, those facilities lose a worker and spend money for nothing out of their appropriated budgets.

I’d bet most of these people that have taken the buyout already earned their pentions. This isn’t “saving” as much money as you think, it’s just meant to break shit and its working.