The government is paying 154,000 people not to work

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  Brian Griffin worked for the Department of Agriculture for almost 30 years.

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  When I first started, I was an inspector for orange juice in the state of Florida,

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  and it evolved over the years.

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  I moved around to other locations and inspected different commodities.

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  Eventually, he ended up in Hawaii, where he worked remotely.

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  He's 63.

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  He planned to retire soon, but he loved his job.

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  It was a lot of fun.

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  It was interesting.

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  There was a good group of people that we were with.

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  It was a good job.

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  Then Donald Trump came back into office.

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  The second Trump administration has taken drastic steps to reshape and reduce the federal workforce.

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  That has included offering millions of government employees a deferred resignation,

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  basically letting them resign but keep getting paid.

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  Ryan heard the administration was threatening to move remote workers like him back to the office.

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  And to get to an office for his specific sub-agency, that was not going to be convenient.

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  The closest office to where I'm located is in California.

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  It was just all the unknowns and the stress of that and the stress of everybody you work with is under that same cloud of unknown things that are going to happen to them.

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  So for Brian, the choice was obvious.

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