Big Paychecks, Bigger Problems: How a bloated bureaucracy exposes Congress’ funding failure

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Big Paychecks, Bigger Problems: How a bloated bureaucracy exposes Congress’ funding failure
Story by Alec Schemmel • 13h

FIRST ON FOX: A new report from a government watchdog group begs the question of why – with nearly 800,000 federal bureaucrats drawing six-figure salaries and the average payroll of the federal workforce far outpacing its size – is Washington still unable to fund the basics of government?
 
Open The Books, a project of American Transparency – a 501(c)3 nonprofit, nonpartisan charitable organization, closely tracks government spending and released an expansive report Wednesday ahead of a looming agreement between Republicans and Democrats to reopen the government, showing the swamp has gotten bigger, richer and more secretive since 2020.

The report, which analyzed all publicly disclosed federal salaries for Fiscal Year 2024, found a total of 2.9 million civil service employees with a total payroll of $270 billion plus an additional 30% for benefits. While the total number of employees rose by 5% since 2020, payroll grew nearly five times as much.


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The report, which analyzed all publicly disclosed federal salaries for Fiscal Year 2024, found a total of 2.9 million civil service employees with a total payroll of $270 billion plus an additional 30% for benefits. While the total number of employees rose by 5% since 2020, payroll grew nearly five times as much.[/size]

Any guesses as to how that happened?