From The Hill newspaper,
By the end of 2025, the Trump administration likely will have shed around 300,000 workers, Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Reuters on Thursday.
The mass departures, which Kupor claimed were largely accounted for by voluntary buyouts rather than firings, would constitute a 12.5 percent reduction of the federal workforce from when President Trump was inaugurated in January.
That percentage is a bit of an exaggeration as the Biden Administration went on a massive hiring spree as they headed out the door. So the 12.5 percent reduction will be down from an all-time high.
Othewise, it’s so much winning. Reuters had reported earlier that 154,000 workers had taken the buyout offer. Reuters also reports that there are some 2,400,000 non-military federal government workers.
Reuters adds,
[T]he number of employees leaving the federal workforce will be more than double the 5.9% attrition in the U.S. government’s civilian workforce in fiscal year 2023, the most recent measure of voluntary departures compiled by the non-profit Partnership for Public Service.
Here’s hoping that none are replaced and that it’s just the beginning.
