This is tempting:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is setting aside $12 million to pay for employee buyouts, officials wrote in a memo this week. ...
The EPA said in April that it would maintain a hiring freeze put in place by the Trump administration in January and that it would offer employees buyouts as part of a workforce restructuring proposal. The agency said at the time that the buyout program would be completed by the end of the fiscal year in September.
The buyout fund also comes as the Trump administration considers a 2018 budget proposal that would see the EPA shed 3,200 jobs. The White House is due to announce its formal budget next week, kicking off the congressional appropriations process.
via thehill.com
Imagine the creative gallows humor:
Emissary: We will block out the sun with our arrows.
Spartan (gallows humor here): Then we will fight in the shade.
