Staffers would be paid for eight months if they resign rather than return to the office full time.

The email is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees.

The White House expects up to 10% of federal employees to quit in a program meant to end work-from-home practices, senior administration officials said.

President Donald Trump is offering incentives to resign to nearly all federal workers in an attempt to reduce the size of the government. The administration expects 5% to 10% of the federal workforce to accept the offer, which contains eight months of pay and benefits. The White House confirmed the plan to the Washington Examiner.

Here’s what we know about the deferred resignation program offered to federal employees by the Trump administration.

The White House is giving federal employees until Feb. 6 to accept the offer, President Trump’s latest move to drastically cut the government’s workforce.

The Trump administration has told around two million federal workers they can resign via email in exchange for a payout.

Thousands of federal workers feel caught in limbo after the White House offer to buy out employees if they agree by Feb. 6.

Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, quickly condemned the Trump administration’s offer to roughly 2 million federal employees to resign in exchange for pay, saying in a Senate floor speech that the deal was a trick, that the president didn’t have the authority to make the offer and employees who resign may not be paid.

The Trump administration offered federal workers the chance to take a "deferred resignation" with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits. More than 50 Wasatch Front business owners, professionals and entrepreneurs urged the governor and Utah Legislature to reconsider the gondola plan.