20,000 IRS workers to leave.

The Biden administration bragged of having taken the IRS to new staffing highs. It may have bragged too soon.

Roughly one-fifth of Internal Revenue Service staff — some 20,000 workers — are taking the buyout, a significant increase from the 4,700 employees who opted in for the first round.

Those are some of the biggest numbers so far. 1 out of 5 is a massive reduction.

And they may be getting closer to the target end goal.

An internal memo obtained by Politico and the Federal News Network stated the agency’s reduction in workforce would end in a figure as low as 60,000 to 70,000 employees. That would be down from more than 100,00 employees under President Joe Biden…

The Department of the Treasury did not respond to a request for comment for this story, but previously confirmed with USA TODAY that the IRS grew from about 79,431 employees to 102,309 under Biden and has since fallen back to its pre-Biden size throughout the first few weeks.

A 24,700 drop would actually reverse the Biden tax boom.

Things are running more slowly elsewhere.

At least 2,700 workers at the Energy Department — which oversees the nation’s nuclear stockpile — applied for the buyout last week, more than double the 1,300 who left in the first wave of deferred resignations. About 4,000 workers — roughly 7% of the workforce — at the Department of Transportation have also asked to take the offer.

There have been more than 280,000 planned cuts of federal workers and contractors across 27 agencies during the past two months, according to data earlier this month from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Those are spectacular numbers.

Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield