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CIA offers buyouts to entire staff in effort to slash spending and ensure agency aligns with MAGA agenda

The Central Intelligence Agency has offered buyouts to its entire workforce in an apparent bid to align with President Donald Trump’s ambition to purge government departments.

CIA agents who accept the buyout conditions would receive eight months of pay, along with all their benefits and entitlements, in exchange for their resignations. 

Two million federal employees were last week offered a generous buyout scheme under the new Trump administration, as he looks to cut waste and reshape federal offices across the nation.

The agency does not disclose its budget or the number of people it employs. 

A CIA spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal that the decision to offer the buyout broadly across the whole department was part of an effort to ‘infuse the agency with renewed energy.’

The agency is also freezing job hiring, and any conditional offers already sent out have been paused. Many of those are likely to now be rescinded, insiders warned.

The report of buyout offers is in line with a massive makeover of the U.S. government embarked on by the Trump administration, which has fired and sidelined hundreds of civil servants in first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists.

Newly appointed CIA Director John Ratcliffe gave staff a blunt warning after he was sworn in following Trump’s inauguration.

The Central Intelligence Agency has offered buyouts to its entire workforce in an apparent bid to align with President Donald Trump ‘s ambition to slash government departments

He vowed to bring about harder-edge spying and covert efforts to tackle drug cartels and Chinese adversaries. 

‘To the brave CIA officers listening around the world, if all of that sounds like what you signed up for, then buckle up and get ready to make a difference,’ he said. 

‘If it doesn’t then it’s time to find a new line of work.’ 

This is a breaking news story. More to come. 

The report of buyout offers is in line with a massive makeover of the U.S. government embarked on by the Trump administration

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