Over 1,000 employees have supposedly resigned from two United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) divisions through a current administration program aimed at downsizing the federal government, NBC News reported, citing an internal USDA email it obtained.
The USDA asked all those who resigned to wait until April 30 to leave "because of this significant and sudden loss of knowledge and experience," according to the department's email provided by an unnamed USDA staffer.
The department is among the federal agencies that have encouraged employees to quit via a "deferred resignation" program that offered several months of paid leave.
