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The government shutdown may have ended, but the persistent threat of federal job cuts has left a mark on workers. The US government’s workforce reduction plans are set to impact 317,000 employees this year, a step up from the 300,000 cuts that were initially estimated by Scott Kupor, Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The federal job cuts are part of the President’s plan to trim down a “bloated and inefficient” workforce, and multiple rounds of cuts have been enforced across agencies earlier this year. Some employees accepted voluntary buyout offers to leave the federal workforce of their own