More than 20,000 US officials have agreed to Musk's offer to quit

In the United States, about 1% (more than 20 thousand employees) of federal officials have agreed to the proposal to quit in exchange for a delay in dismissal, which will continue to pay their salaries until the end of September. This was reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday, February 4.

According to an official familiar with the data, those numbers will continue to rise each day as the deadline to accept the offer expires on Thursday, Feb. 6.

President Donald Trump and his chief efficiency officer CEO Ilon Musk expect the proposal to cut up to 10 percent of the federal workforce, the agency writes.

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What's really behind the destruction of USAID

Earlier, on January 30, CBS News reported that the Trump administration has demanded that some high-ranking members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) submit their resignations or retire. In case the demand is not fulfilled, the officials will be forcibly dismissed, specified the interlocutors of the publication.

Before that, on January 28, it was reported that the US Department of Justice fired more than a dozen employees involved in cases against US President Donald Trump. The dismissal of employees who worked in the team of special prosecutor Jack Smith is in line with the administration's "determination to purge the government of employees it considers disloyal to the President".

On January 20, Trump's team demanded the resignation of dozens of senior State Department diplomats in order to demonstrate a "decisive break" with the outgoing administration of current U.S. President Joe Biden. It is noted that American diplomats, including US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs John Bass and Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Jeffrey Pyatt, will leave their posts from noon on Monday after receiving instructions from Trump's aides.