The buyout proposals support Donald Trump's attempts to reorganize the government by displacing public officials in an effort to reduce red tape and attract more supporters.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the CIA has extended buyout offers to all of its employees in an effort to better align the organization with US President Donald Trump's agenda.According to the newspaper, which cited an adviser to CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the agency is also stopping the employment of candidates who had previously received conditional offers in addition to the buyouts.
Some of the frozen offers could be withdrawn, according to an unnamed aide, if the candidates' backgrounds don't fit with CIA's new goals, which include fighting drug cartels, tackling Trump's trade war, and opposing China.
Requests for comment have not yet received a response from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which does not disclose its worker size or budget.
The Wall Street Journal was informed by a CIA spokesperson that the buyouts were intended to give the organization "new life."
In an attempt to reduce the bureaucracy and attract more loyalists, the Trump administration has already fired or sidelined hundreds of federal servants, and the rumored buyout offers are in keeping with these efforts.
As part of President Donald Trump's effort to reduce the size of the federal workforce, the White House last week offered two million full-time civilian federal employees the option to quit their jobs while still receiving salary and benefits through September 30.
The administration's buyout scheme for federal employees was challenged in court on Tuesday by unions that represent US government employees.
Days after Trump started his second term, the Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe, a former US congressman who had been the Director of National Intelligence during Trump's first term, as the next director of CIA.
Ratcliffe's aide told the Wall Street Journal that the CIA under Trump will concentrate more on the Western Hemisphere, which includes countries that have not historically been viewed as US rivals.
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