see link...from that link...
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Under Clinton, the government offered mass buyouts. But there’s a key difference with what’s happening under Trump: A bipartisan Congress overwhelmingly approved Clinton’s program following months of review.
By contrast, Trump’s "deferred resignation" offer, conversationally known as a buyout, emerged within a week of his inauguration, with lots of uncertainty about the terms.
"We spent six months, involved several hundred federal workers, and made hundreds of recommendations to Clinton and Gore, some of which they accepted, some they didn’t," said David Osborne, an adviser to the Clinton-era review that preceded the buyouts.
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A few weeks into his presidency in February 1993, Clinton issued an executive order telling each government department or agency with more than 100 employees to cut at least 4% of its civilian positions over three years through attrition or "early out programs."
Congress paved the way for buyouts. In March 1994, Clinton signed H.R. 3345, the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994. The legislation passed by wide, bipartisan margins: 391-17 in the House and 99-1 in the Senate.
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There's a Right Way and a Wrong Way to accomplish a goal that everyone supports...i.e. efficient use of taxpayer money...DOGE is not it, and only serves to harm the efficient functioning of our government...and national security...which is probably why Putin's Lapdog is doing this.
Link: https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/feb/06/yes-bill-clinton-offered-mass-federal-employee-buy/
