Close to half of the 4,127 employees leaving federal agencies will come from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Roughly 7 percent of USDOT employees have accepted the government’s ‘deferred resignation’ offer, according to an article by Chris Marquette in Politico.
This amounts to a total of 4,127 employees, almost half of which come from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “The aviation safety agency accounts for the vast majority of the DOT’s employees, including air traffic controllers whose operations are the subject of a multibillion-dollar improvement plan that Duffy announced in May.”
At the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), 249 employees, or 32.7 percent of the workforce, accepted the offer. Other DOT agencies are similarly losing major portions of their workforce: the NHTSA, which addresses traffic safety, will lose 27.8 percent of its staff; the FHWA will lose 26 percent.
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