At least 20,000 federal employees have reportedly accepted the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer, totaling about 1% of the federal workforce. Last week, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management sent an email to nearly 2.

The Office of Personnel Management, which manages the federal civil service, is defending its bid for staffers to resign.

The email is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees.

Agencies are starting to take action against DEI-tasked employees and pass lists of those workers on to OPM and the White House.

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The White House told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that it anticipates a "spike" in federal government resignations as a buyout offer deadline looms.

The Trump administration on Monday pushed back on what it's calling "misinformation" about its "fork in the road" offer to federal workers, who were given the option to resign and get paid for eight months.