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Some people who accepted the ‘fork in the road’ federal resignation offer got fired anyway.

Including at least one person who was fired from the Small Business Administration twice before being told she was being accepted into the messily-arranged deferred resignation program, according to a report from The Washington Post.

The Trump administration kept promising “we should have no fear that it would be honored,” said a U.S. Forest Service employee who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The employee tried to accept the resignation deal Feb. 6, only to be fired three months before she would have graduated out of her probationary status.

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