The IRS proceeds to shrink the federal workforce to cut 20,000 jobs as Trump Administration

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IRS has started cutting important jobs, starting from the office of civil rights and compliance. About 20,000 employees may be affected as part of the efforts of the Trump administration to reduce the federal task force and improve efficiency. Some employees have been offered purchases under the ‘postponed resignation program’.

According to three people familiar with the case, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has begun to leave employees as part of job cuts, which can see 20,000 employees, who can lose their jobs in a quarter of their entire workforce.
Sorting started from Friday and will initially hit the office of IRS’s civil rights and compliance, which has been reduced by 75 percent. Currently less than 200 people work in unit, earlier known as the office of equity, diversity and inclusion. The remaining employees will be allegedly absorbed in the office of the agency’s chief counsel.
Job cuts are part of a broad step by the Trump administration to return the federal bureaucracy. Under the guidance of billionaire Elon Musk’s Government Efficiency Department, the workforce has been reduced from several agencies along with plans to eliminate something like the Education Department.
Many people have also been offered to procure what the administration is saying to a “postponed resignation program”.
A spokesman of the Treasury Department, who did not name, said on Friday that the deduction of the employees was associated with extensive efforts to modernize and these changes are part of major process reforms and technological innovations that would allow IRS to operate more effectively.
The spokesperson said in a statement that Biden-era hiring and consolidating support functions intend to serve the public more efficiently.
The IRS had already begun to cut its workforce in February, when around 7,000 probationary employees, a year or less in the agency, were informed that they would lose their jobs. However, a federal judge later ruled that these workers should be restored.
In March, the IRS employees involved in the 2025 tax season processing were told that they would not be allowed to offer any purchase until after the deadline of the major tax filing of April 15.