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Honey, I shrunk the government: Trump quietly downsizes federal bureaucracy, and it's historic
'Workforce is smaller today than at any point since 1966'

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Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal

April 10, 2026



The days of peak DOGE may be over, but Trump's quiet transformation of the federal bureaucracy continues.

The Trump administration shrank the federal workforce to its smallest number since the launch of LBJ's Great Society. This incredible stat, little remarked upon by the media, was dredged up by X user Christian Heiens.

"Since Trump took office, over 352,000 Federal employees have been fired, resigned, or retired and were not replaced," Heiens wrote on X. "The Federal workforce is smaller today than at any point since 1966."

https://www.wnd.com/2026/04/honey-i-shrunk-government-trump-quietly-downsizes-federal/
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Surely Schumer will shut down the government in protest. :0001:
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352,000 employees removed X $50,000 per average savings = $17,600,000,000 savings.

Not a bad start!
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Then why does it cost more than the previous administration?
I cry bullcrap.

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Then why does it cost more than the previous administration?
I cry bullcrap.

Money on defense?   $60B alone there. 

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Money on defense?   $60B alone there.

I won't believe a single word from ANY of em until the numbers at audit are running the other way. I don't care which administration.

Show me the final. Show me the Benjamins. :bullie smokin: