More than 2 million civilian federal workers across the country are facing a gut-wrenching deadline tomorrow.

They can either accept an offer from the Trump administration to resign and keep their pay and benefits through September,

or they can pass on the offer but take a gamble that they may be laid off in the weeks ahead.

It's part of Elon Musk's push to dramatically cut the size of government.

That includes intelligence agencies like the CIA and the NSA who are looking at the same offer.

Lisa Desjardin and our team have been talking with workers throughout the government, and she joins me now.

So Lisa, there's been a blitz of directives and actions around federal workers.

Help us understand what's happening

and why it matters.

Presidents have the right, as we just heard, to change agencies and to affect political

appointees.

But what's happening here is sort of an unprecedented barrage of activity against the largest

civilian workforce in this country.

Pressure tactics, people told to snitch on their coworkers.

And let's take a look at through all the orders that federal workers have received in the last

bit.

First, there is a hiring freeze in place across government.

They have this deferred resignation deadline that you talked about for tomorrow.

There have been administrative leave notices, layoffs in places.

There's been lists

of new requirements that people think are going toward a purge. Their back-to-office policy

starts beginning Friday at the Department of Defense. Now, as you said, Trump wants to downsize

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