Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 19:15     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
Anonymous wrote:DOGE didnt touch VA or DoD. They only went after “Democrat priorities”.

I’m in a small DOD (now DOW) command. We went from ~7300 to ~6200 - roughly 14% loss.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 19:01     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:These data tables are shocking. Everyone knows that USAID and Dept of Ed were slashed, but the number of agencies showing departments that are decimated from Dept of Ag, GSA, HUD and Treasury was really surprising to me. FAFO Republicans.


A lot of those were early retirements, buyouts and resignations.


So? If you offer buyouts, early retirement, etc to get people to leave (especially while making it unpleasant to stay) you are slashing government.

The goal was to get people to leave; they left; now nothing works as well as it did and some things don't work at all. Winning?
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 18:56     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
My non-target agency has lost 17 percent of its people, mostly to early or regular retirement — really knowledgeable people who just didn’t want to come in 5 days a week for no purpose. It’s really problematic.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 18:38     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
Anonymous wrote:These data tables are shocking. Everyone knows that USAID and Dept of Ed were slashed, but the number of agencies showing departments that are decimated from Dept of Ag, GSA, HUD and Treasury was really surprising to me. FAFO Republicans.


A lot of those were early retirements, buyouts and resignations.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 17:04     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
Anonymous wrote:DOGE didnt touch VA or DoD. They only went after “Democrat priorities”.


According to the article, DOD headcount is down 8% and VA by 6%. But that could be the Fork effects, as these are much smaller declines than the targeted agencies like HHS and HUD.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 17:01     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
DOGE didnt touch VA or DoD. They only went after “Democrat priorities”.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 17:00     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
Anonymous wrote:Still not as many as Clinton laid off. Funny how people ignore history.

Funny how you ignore facts.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 16:58     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
These data tables are shocking. Everyone knows that USAID and Dept of Ed were slashed, but the number of agencies showing departments that are decimated from Dept of Ag, GSA, HUD and Treasury was really surprising to me. FAFO Republicans.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 16:33     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
It's like the wild wild west at my agency now. We are missing very critical positions and are unable to even get internal details to fill those spots. So the few people left standing in those roles are run down. And then other offices are just flush with people and no work to do. It's infuriating.

Just wait until hiring opens and it will be a big boom. I need twice as many people as I lost to even begin to function again.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 16:32     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Still not as many as Clinton laid off. Funny how people ignore history.


This was done over 8 years. Much less traumatic to the system than Fork in the Road approach with no planning in place.


^^^this- I have 33 years of federal service and this was completely different than the Clinton administration- it was done with congressal approval over time.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 15:44     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
Anonymous wrote:Still not as many as Clinton laid off. Funny how people ignore history.


This was done over 8 years. Much less traumatic to the system than Fork in the Road approach with no planning in place.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 15:38     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
Still not as many as Clinton laid off. Funny how people ignore history.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 15:06     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
But spending is up. MAGA!
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 15:06     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
They have absolute destroyed USPTO and the morale. This agency takes no appropriated funds, functioned well, and had been remote working for 30 years (and seamlessly transitioned through COVID), all of which allowed for hiring the best and brightest.

It's a former shell of itself and for no good reason.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 14:19     Subject: 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency
New York Times data analysis of the Trump federal worker cuts and which agencies were impacted and how...

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.