The Central Intelligence Agency has become the first major national security agency to offer buyouts to its entire workforce, sources said. The move, part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal government, allows employees to resign with roughly eight months of pay and benefits. CIA Director John Ratcliffe personally decided to include the agency in the buyout program. Trump and his allies have claimed at different points that intelligence officers at the CIA have been part of a “deep state” determined to undermine him. Some critics have described the deferred resignation program as a purge, which Trump officials have denied.
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00:02The Central Intelligence Agency has become the first major national security agency to offer
00:06buyouts to its entire workforce, sources said. The move, part of Donald Trump's efforts to shrink
00:12the federal government, allows employees to resign with roughly eight months of pay and benefits.
00:18CIA Director John Radcliffe personally decided to include the agency in the buyout program.
00:23Trump and his allies have claimed at different points that intelligence officers at the CIA
00:27have been a part of a deep state determined to undermine him. Some critics have described the
00:33deframed registration program as a purge, which Trump officials have denied.
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