Workers, lawmakers protest Trump agency cuts, buyout deadline [Video]

Thursday is the deadline for 2.3 million federal government workers to accept a buyout from the Trump administration, forfeiting their jobs in exchange for about eight months of pay.This week, the Trump administration clarified its offer, saying while the buyout is supposed to pay people through September, it cannot guarantee paychecks past mid-March when government funding runs out.The impact of the cuts could be felt immediately as agencies like the Veterans Administration, which are already short-staffed, could lose as many as 100,000 nurses.More than 2 million workers received a buyout offer with 85% of them living outside of the Washington, D.C. area.Now, resistance is mounting against the resignation program spearheaded by President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and led by ally Elon Musk.Grassroots protests erupted Wednesday across the country while a new memo from the Office of Personnel Management pressured employees to accept the buyout and leave …