[Sicon]

Actually, she said that in the 1960’s, there were ~1.8 million FedGov employees, and that there are 2.3 million now. That’s an increase of ~28%. Not insignificant, but also not all that shocking, given population growth over the same period.

[Jolla]

yes if you include the military,

[AndyJackson]

But back when it was 1.8 M it was all feds. Now we have a "blended workforce" with contractors augmenting the feds on a >1:1 ratio. And they can do things feds can't do and they senior leaders can get contractors to do things that it is actually illegal for feds to do.

It's another part of the tangled web of deepstate corruption.