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About 75,000 federal employees have accepted the White House's "deferred resignation" offer to resign but receive pay through September, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management.
The offer's deadline closed on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled to end a temporary pause to the program.
NBC News cannot independently verify the number of employees who took the White House's offer.
The number of federal employees who are reported to have taken the offer amounts to less than 5% of the federal workforce. The administration...
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