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[quote=Anonymous]New York Times data analysis of the Trump federal worker cuts and which agencies were impacted and how...
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220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.html
The Trump administration shrank the federal work force by about 220,000 workers through November, representing about a 10 percent cut, according to new data that offers the first clear view of the president’s blitz to remake the government’s labor force. This decline, which also accounts for limited new hiring, has reversed the last decade of growth for America’s largest employer, returning the federal work force to roughly the size it was when President Trump took office the first time.

But the cuts went far deeper for some agencies and offices: They have had the effect of hollowing out decades-old functions of the federal government.

In many cases, the departures have whittled down agencies that hadn’t grown in years or benefited from the expansion of the federal work force over the last two decades. Most of that expansion has been driven by just one agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs. In other words, Mr. Trump’s cuts — some carried out haphazardly, then reversed — aren’t a simple rollback of recent government bloat, but a more fundamental change to what the government does.
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