Thousands of Department of Health and Human Services employees were offered the option to voluntarily resign in exchange for payments of up to $25,000.

Most of HHS’s roughly 80,000 employees are eligible for the offer and have until 5 p.m. Friday to accept or reject the “voluntary separation incentive payment” outlined in a department-wide email to employees on Friday, according to NBC News.

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HHS’s sprawling bureaucracy, which boasts an annual budget of roughly $1.7 trillion, encompasses major agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The health department’s buyout offer comes as the Trump administration, led by the Department of Government Efficiency, has made a major push to reduce the size of the bureaucracy and slash costs.

Roughly 77,000 federal employees accepted a deferred resignation plan offered by the Trump administration in January, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced in February. The offer allows workers to continue working remotely until they resign in September.

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On Feb. 28, most Education Department employees received a buyout offer of up to $25,000 if they voluntarily resigned. The Social Security Administration also made a similar offer of $15,000 to $25,000 to its employees last week.

The Washington Examiner reached out to HHS for comment.