Don’t be fooled by ‘disappointing’ federal workforce shrinkage, ‘it’s not the full picture
July 3, 2025 | Nicole Haas
Despite the disclosure of massive waste and fraud in the federal government, the workforce only shrank by 1% in the first months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the federal workforce totaled 2,289,472 employees as of March 31, a decrease from 2,313,216 on September 30, 2024. This reduction of over 23,000 jobs “demonstrates the administration’s initial steps toward reducing government size and cutting excess bureaucracy,” OPM stated in a press release.
But it’s not nearly enough, according to some economic experts who spoke with Fox News Digital, while others predict “it’s only the beginning.”
“That’s just through the end of March. So I suspect those numbers will be higher by the end of September this year, which is when a lot of the early retirement packages– and buyouts – go into effect,” Alex Nowrasteh, the Cato Institute’s vice president for economic and social policy studies, told Fox News Digital.
“Regardless of what those numbers are, this is not enough people having been terminated. It is not enough shrinkage in the federal workforce. And it is a disappointing effect of DOGE that it wasn’t able to increase the size of the decrease in the federal workforce,” he added.
Is it DOGE’s responsibility to fire fed workers or expose the waste?
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