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The Trump administration is offering millions of federal workers the option to accept buyouts through a government-wide "deferred resignation" program if they resign by Feb. 6.

The sweeping buyouts are being offered to "make sure that all federal workers are on board with the new administration's plan to have federal employees in office and adhering to higher standards," a senior administration official told NBC on condition of anonymity.

"Purging the federal government of dedicated career federal employees will have vast, unintended consequences that will cause chaos for the Americans who depend on a functioning federal government," AFGE said in a statement. »

We want to be Greenlanders,” he told reporters earlier this month.

Trump first mulled acquiring the vast Arctic island and its mineral resources during his first term in office, but was rebuffed by Copenhagen.

Egede is keen to hold a referendum that could see the island become independent from Denmark, and freer to chart its own future. »

Medicaid reimbursement portals went down Tuesday in every U.S. state after the Trump administration ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans, a senator said.

But the White House later said it expected the systems to "be back online shortly" without any effect on payments.

"My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., wrote in a post on the social media site X. »

President Donald Trump's administration is offering federal workers the chance to take a "deferred resignation," which would mean they agree now to resign but get paid through September.

The offer went out to the federal workforce through a new system the Trump administration set up that gives officials the ability to email all federal employees at once.

But the subject line of the email that will be sent to federal workers is: "Fork in the Road.". »