The reduction marks the smallest federal headcount since the 1960s, fulfilling a campaign pledge by Trump to streamline government operations. The process involved the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to identify redundancies and facilitate the exit of hundreds of thousands of workers from the payroll.
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US Federal Workforce Hits 60 Year Low on 300,000 Job Cuts
US Politics20 days ago
The total number of civilian employees in the US government has fallen to about 2.7 million, based on recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This count excludes personnel in the intelligence community and active duty military troops. President Trump's administration removed more than 300,000 positions through agency cuts and resignations to shrink the size of the central bureaucracy.
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