Posted on 08/23/2025 3:12:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Donald Trump to Achieve the Largest Cut in Federal Workforce in 80 Years US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, onWill Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Lowell Cauffiel22 Aug 2025194 3:12 In what is being called the largest single-year cut in civilian federal employment since World War II, 2025 will end with 300,000 fewer workers employed by the United States government.
New Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor told several news outlets, most recently the New York Times, that the federal workforce will drop from 2.4 million to 2.1 million employees, largely as the result of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) efforts.
In a lengthy interview this week with Washington, DC, station WTOP, Kupor said that up to 80 percent of the reductions come from federal workers choosing to access buyouts or another program that paid them while they looked for other work.
“I think the team that designed those did as much as they could to be appropriately generous and give people as long of a runway as they could to go transition into something,” Kupor told the station.
The other 20 percent were fired, Kupor told Reuters in a previous interview. The total reduction amounts to a 12.5 percent decrease in the federal workforce of approximately 2.3 million. …
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Yup,
Exactly.
These federal workplace cuts reduce federal bureaucracy but even more importantly cripple the left.
Almost every leftist activity depends on federal funds and regulations—directly or indirectly.
Not if the rest of the state outvotes them. Unfortunately, Winsome Sears is a lousy candidate and Spanberger is dishonest but slick.
"Would you like fries with that?"
While it’s good to cut the federal workforce, the damage they do FAR EXCEEDS the cost of their employment, probably by an order of magnitude.
Thankfully, Trump is well into dealing with that aspect too, with his reforms at EPA and killing off USAID, and in many, many, other areas.
yes, good start.
I hope the next year will be similar.
Trump still has 3.5 years to go!
With the incoming AI mayhem about to happen in job market, most will be looking for some kind of guaranteed income program...imho
I think what would reinforce the rightness of what PDJT is doing are some graphs. Show the workforce increase versus the increase of workload by agency or department. It should plainly show that the Biden administration was cooking the unemployment numbers by vast government hiring when the demand for services was not increasing.
yep.
White collar folks are going to have to learn to pick up a wrench or a hammer—and do something useful for their neighbors and communities.
They can even make a good living that way.
Yes...thankfully talked my grandson out iof college beyond AA...he and his dad are in construction...be awhile before they are affected, I think.
Thanks - I got my aggregate number from GROK but didn’t go into splitting it up...
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