Big Government getting bigger as Biden plots massive hiring spree he folks at NASA have to be wondering what they did to anger President Biden.
The space agency is poised for a cut of 3% of its workforce next year under Mr. Biden’s budget proposal — which is odd because every other department and independent agency is holding serve or seeing an increase, in many cases a substantial increase.
Indeed, Mr. Biden’s budget plan continues one of the fastest expansions of the federal bureaucracy in U.S. history, with roughly 75,000 more non-defense employees added to the government’s rolls in just one year. That’s a 5% increase.
“The Imperial City on the Potomac keeps growing larger and larger,” said Chris Edwards, editor of DownsizingGovernment.org and an expert at the libertarian Cato Institute.
President Trump left office in 2021 with 2.183 million executive branch employees, excluding the U.S. Postal Service. Mr. Biden oversaw an increase of just a few thousand positions in 2022. He has since kicked things up by adding 88,400 employees in 2023 and asking for 81,700 more in 2024.
Mr. Biden projects the executive branch non-Postal Service workforce will hit 2.356 million in 2024.
His spending plan needs the approval of Congress, but should it hold, it would mean the Treasury and Labor departments will have grown more than 20% over two years. Agriculture, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Veterans Affairs each would have grown 10% or more..............
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