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President Trump posts that federal employment has fallen off a CLIFF under his 2nd term
X ^ | Eric Daugherty

Posted on 12/26/2025 5:07:24 AM PST by SmokingJoe

NOW: President Trump posts that federal employment has fallen off a CLIFF under his 2nd term

The federal government has lost hundreds of THOUSANDS of jobs

Trump: “Big news for the USA!” 🇺🇸🔥

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: federaljobs; trump
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1 posted on 12/26/2025 5:07:24 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Its what I’d call “a good start”.


2 posted on 12/26/2025 5:10:48 AM PST by woweeitsme
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To: SmokingJoe

Libs who believe everyone should have a no-work federal job will be wailing.


3 posted on 12/26/2025 5:18:19 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
For sure ... a lot of 'do nothing' Federal 'jobs' have to go away!
4 posted on 12/26/2025 5:20:29 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: SmokingJoe

5 posted on 12/26/2025 5:22:11 AM PST by DFG
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To: SmokingJoe

But spending is up.


6 posted on 12/26/2025 5:27:40 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SmokingJoe

Cut the fat, defund the fed.
Why pay for something that you don’t kneed.


7 posted on 12/26/2025 5:27:49 AM PST by Recompennation ( Deeeeeeeeezout )
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To: 9YearLurker

Many of the cut employees were on the payroll until the end of the fiscal year (September 30).

We should start seeing budget impacts when this quarter’s numbers come in....


8 posted on 12/26/2025 5:36:42 AM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: SmokingJoe

I was thinking about the number of Federal Police since 19 bad dudes killed 3000 Americans on 9/11.

The Federal Police Force includes:

FBI, TSA, ICE, CBP, ATF, DEA and others. That police force is around 250,000.

So why have we imported hundreds of thousands of criminals in the past 25 years?

I did not research the number of Federal Police Force members in 2000, but I would guess it would be around 100,000.

As usual government creates problems and then hires a boatload of people to manage the problem.


9 posted on 12/26/2025 5:38:03 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: SmokingJoe

Good but nowhere near enough. They need to hire more ICE agents and slash government bureaucracies by several hundred thousand more in 2026.


10 posted on 12/26/2025 5:41:37 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: SmokingJoe

To many presidents have hired people for federal employment that weren’t needed but it made their numbers look good Trump fixed that.

Democrats hit hardest


11 posted on 12/26/2025 5:43:53 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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To: SmokingJoe

I think that included terminating many unfilled positions.


12 posted on 12/26/2025 5:50:09 AM PST by Fido969
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“President Trump posts that federal employment has fallen off a CLIFF under his 2nd term”

CNN fact checker:

There are no known incidents of any federal employees falling off of cliffs during President Trump’s 2nd term.

We rate the President’s claim as FALSE.


13 posted on 12/26/2025 5:59:14 AM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times Editor)
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To: Fido969
Nope.
271,000 federal employees who were not doing useful jobs were terminated or given incentives to leave.
14 posted on 12/26/2025 6:04:56 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Wages and benefits are at least 3 billion a week times 52 weeks is 150 billion, or more. I figured that at $40. per hour for wages and benefits, which we all know is way under actual figures.


15 posted on 12/26/2025 6:06:02 AM PST by healy61
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That’s a lot of unemployed democrats. Everyone knows those rats can never find employment in the private sector. Schadenfreude!


16 posted on 12/26/2025 6:06:09 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Trump needs to double those numbers of unemployed federal workers by the end of 2026 if he want to impress me politically. 250k isn’t nearly enough, we need close to 1 million gone.


17 posted on 12/26/2025 6:12:16 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: woweeitsme

I believe the intention was to get rid of the jobs that were not needed. I doubt that I have full understanding of all this, but I rather believe the president knows more about it in full than I do.


18 posted on 12/26/2025 6:14:10 AM PST by oldtech
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To: SmokingJoe

THIS is what I voted for.


19 posted on 12/26/2025 6:14:50 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: SmokingJoe

He needs a bigger cliff to save America.


20 posted on 12/26/2025 6:15:50 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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