“The assistant commissioner of a division of the General Services Administration told staff early this week that layoffs across the federal government are ‘likely’ after the deferred resignation offer expires Thursday — the sharpest move yet toward forcibly removing many of the 2.3 million civilian federal employees,” the Washington Post reports.
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