{"id":1276,"date":"2026-01-09T00:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:05:30","slug":"trumps-press-secretary-leaves-the-white-house-and-makes-a-big-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Press Secretary Leaves the White House and Makes a Big Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3688\" src=\"https:\/\/akihideshikikawa.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6-4-240x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akihideshikikawa.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6-4-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/akihideshikikawa.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6-4-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/akihideshikikawa.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6-4-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/akihideshikikawa.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6-4.jpg 1080w\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The offer stunned nearly 2 million federal workers. Quit now\u2026 and still get paid for months. Rumors spread across agencies, fear mixing with disbelief. Was this a lifeline\u2014or a trap? As deadlines loomed and inboxes pinged with \u201curgent\u201d memos, some rushed to sign. Others froze, terrified of what came ne\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Behind the sterile phrase \u201cdeferred resignation program\u201d was a deeply personal reckoning for millions of public servants. For some, it felt like a velvet shove out the door: months of full pay and benefits in exchange for walking away from careers built over decades. For others, it was a political message disguised as a budget fix\u2014clear out the ranks, reset the culture, and send a warning to anyone resisting the push back to the office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1691648\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In cubicles and kitchen tables across the country, families ran the numbers and weighed the risk: take the money and gamble on a shaky job market, or stay put and brace for a harsher next round. Whatever they chose, one truth lingered: this wasn\u2019t just about cutting costs. It was about power, presence, and who gets to decide the future of government work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The offer stunned nearly 2 million federal workers. Quit now\u2026 and still get paid for months. Rumors spread across agencies, fear mixing with disbelief. Was this a lifeline\u2014or a trap? &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}