Tension is high at the Education Department, where leadership announced earlier this week that staff who take the deferred resignation package offered to much of the federal workforce would waive their right to sue if the government fails to uphold the offer. The employee union urged them not to take the deal, worried that it’s “eerily similar to the situation at Twitter” during Musk’s takeover, in which employees did not get the severance they expected.
One longtime employee at the Department of Education who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal sentiments said there is an urgent and deep worry sweeping across the agency’s career staff as DOGE sets its sights on them.
