Nick Gioia was terminated from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in February as part of President Donald Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk’s effort to slash the size and cost of the federal government.
Gioia was then reinstated and placed on paid leave after a court ruling. Now, after a second round of buyout offers were emailed in recent days to government workers in at least half a dozen federal agencies, the U.S. Army veteran decided to take it.
“For some of us, the time has come to step away before this experience completely erodes what remains of our well-being,” Gioia told Reuters.
Several other federal employees told Reuters they are taking this second buyout offer, saying that many civil servants are suffering from nervous exhaustion after three months of chaos and cuts driven by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
I don’t even think we have that long.
Well, I’ll rephrase that: I don’t think I have that long being on SSDI, Medicaid, and in HUD housing. I have no doubt I’ll be disappeared as a “parasite” long before the collapse. I do have a cane and I’m not afraid to use it for what it wasn’t intended for so I won’t go down without a fight.
But given the fact that nearly half of Project 2025 has been implanted in a little less than 4 months it might happen at the end of summer – especially if the debt ceiling doesn’t get raised.