Roughly one in four IRS employees have accepted a buyout offer and plan to resign, according to sources familiar with the matter, marking the largest workforce reduction at the agency in decades as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to shrink the federal government, the Westfair Business Journal reported.

Approximately 25% of the Internal Revenue Service workforce is set to leave the agency after accepting buyout offers under the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

The buyout deadline passed Tuesday morning, and preliminary figures show that about 22,000 employees — out of a workforce of 90,000 — have opted to resign.

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