The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is offering hefty financial incentives for nearly all civilian full-time federal workers to resign as part of plans to drastically shrink the size of the government.

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

The Trump administration said Tuesday it is offering incentives for nearly all civilian federal workers to resign and warned of plans to shrink the size of the government. The "deferred resignation program" would allow federal employees to remain on the payroll through Sept.

The White House is reportedly planning to send a memo Tuesday offering federal workers a buyout. An administration official tells Axios that the offer stands for federal employees who don’t want to return to the office through Sept.