2025.8.23(六)Samedi 23 août 2025
The Trump administration is paying about
154,000 employees not to work as a result of novel resignation incentives
offered to federal workers since Inauguration Day, the government’s human
resources arm said Thursday.
That estimate is the first comprehensive
disclosure from the government about the scale of President Donald Trump’s
effort to downsize the federal workforce.
Still, the figure represents just a portion
of the total number of workers who have left the federal government since the beginning
of the Trump administration—only those who accepted an offer to resign early in
exchange for many months of pay. It does not include the thousands of people
who were laid off or fired.
While the Trump administration has not made
public a complete picture of the cuts, the work of Trump and his Department of Government
Efficiency under Elon Musk amounts to the largest reduction to the federal
workforce in the modern era. The government employed roughly 2.3 million
nonmilitary workers at the start of the year.
A spokesperson for the Office of Personnel
Management said that as of June, about 154,000 employees had resigned or retired
early with the promise of being paid through Sept. 30 or Dec. 31, depending on
the offer.
The partnership for Public Service, a
nonprofit that works to promote best practices in the federal government, had
estimated the total number of departures—voluntary resignations, layoffs and
firings—to be around 148,000 as of July.
The organization relied on agency announcements,
court filings and media reports to track the departures. It calculated the
number of separations from the resignation incentive programs to be around 80,000,
which is 74,000 less than the administration’s count. The disparity underscores
how little information the administration has disclosed about the scale and
scope of the separations.
“We are dealing with a pitch -black battlefield
where there is enormous carnage growing every day, and there’s little penlights
providing us some visibility in terms of what’s happening,” said Max Stier, the
CEO of the partnership. “And we need a floodlight.”
The total number of departures is likely to
change, with more layoffs planned and continued efforts underway in some pockets
of the federal bureaucracy to rehire employees deemed essential to operations.
(Eileen Sullivan)
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