The Ford School's Betsey Stevenson spoke with Bloomberg following a recent email from the Trump administration encouraging many federal employees to resign. Some have called the offer a "buyout" though Stevenson has noted this is not the case. “If you submit your resignation, you can feel guaranteed that you'll not be fired before September. I don't think that you can be guaranteed that you won't be working." Workers are not expected to return to office following their resignation, though Stevenson stated this could be situational. “If the entire Social Security team resigned and there was nobody to send out checks, I bet they'd make them do the work."
