(The Hill) - By the end of 2025, the Trump administration will likely have shed around 300,000 workers, Office of Personnel Management director Scott Kupor told Reuters on Thursday.

The mass departures, which Kupor claimed were largely accounted for by voluntary buyouts rather than firings, would constitute a 12.5 percent reduction of the federal workforce from when President Trump was inaugurated in January.

“I cannot force people to lay people off,” Kupor told the outlet.

In February, the Trump administration offered a buyout to federal employees promising eight months of compensation, then expecting between five and 10 percent to elect to leave.

Reuters reported in July that around 154,000 federal employees, or around 6.7 percent of the federal workforce, have taken the buyout.

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