WASHINGTON — New reports detailed that at least 15,000 employees from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) decided to resign since the beginning of the Trump administration.

Numbers reported by Reuters showed that 555 employees from the Food Safety Inspection Service were among the people who decided on the deferred resignation.

Other areas of USDA resignations come from 1,846 resignations from the Marketing and Regulatory Programs, which include the Agriculture Marketing Service and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

USDA will reportedly look at cutting up to 30,000 positions when it moves forward with a reduction-in-force.

During February, the USDA retracted termination offers from people working on the ongoing highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak.

According to the USDA website, the agency currently has 100,000 employees at more than 4,500 locations.