"It's goodness that's coming from a very terribly depressing place," she says. "I'm able to just breathe. It's a new kind of feeling that I've never experienced before. But there's definitely a lot of fear."
"Back in the spring, President Trump called the government buyout "a very generous offer.""
"I do think it was a fair deal for me as an individual," she says. "For the American people? No, they got robbed."
A deferred resignation buyout offered to much of the federal workforce prompted over 150,000 workers to resign with pay and benefits through at least Sept. 30. Many participants continued to receive paychecks and government health insurance after their last workdays. The program was modeled on a deal used at Twitter and reached millions via an Office of Personnel Management email. Individual reactions vary from relief and the ability to "just breathe" to fear and concern about public value. Job searches have produced few offers for some participants, and opinions differ on whether taxpayers benefited.
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