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Donald Trump to Achieve the Largest Cut
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/23/2025 2:25:38 AM

In what is being called the largest single-year cut in civilian federal employment since World War II, 2025 will end with 300,000 fewer workers employed by the United States government. New Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor told several news outlets, most recently the New York Times, that the federal workforce will drop from 2.4 million to 2.1 million employees, largely as the result of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) efforts. In a lengthy interview this week with Washington, DC, station WTOP, Kupor said that up to 80 percent of the reductions

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Reply 1 - Posted by: thefield 8/23/2025 3:35:39 AM (No. 1994276)
Union bosses will have to skip one bottle of champagne for the year.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: NotaBene 8/23/2025 4:14:25 AM (No. 1994280)
Thank you Elon Musk the Great for your service to our country. 300,000 fewer useless parasites.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 8/23/2025 5:33:21 AM (No. 1994285)
While I give great credit to Trump and the way he has handled the cuts, there are a lot of other questions. How much did Biden grow the workforce? Did Trump just shrink back to the size before Biden? Also, while the largest by numbers, the population has grown and it is reasonable that the size of the federal workforce may have, legitimately, increased with it. So a more interesting number might be the percentage of the decrease as compared to the percentage decrease of other presidents. Again, I am very pleased with Trump. His selective targeting of some of the most corrupt agencies in government, like USAID, is brilliant work. However, if BJ Clintoon cut the workforce by 10% and Trump's cut is 8%, you could argue there is more work to do. Biden certainly bloated the workforce so Trump had a bigger target. The other great thing about this is that it is a part of the whole effort to reduce costs to the American people. Less employees reduces cost. But higher tariff revenue also reduces costs for Americans. It's a big beautiful reset of how the whole government does business.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Strike3 8/23/2025 5:45:34 AM (No. 1994289)
All of those pathetic democrat drones, out on the street. The horror! One of the biggest oxymorons in the world, Government Worker.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Msquared112 8/23/2025 6:56:45 AM (No. 1994309)
That's more than a quarter of a million people who won't be harassing citizens any more. Dead wood who view themselves as big fish when they are really superfluous minnows.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 8/23/2025 7:29:33 AM (No. 1994320)
A decrease of one would have probably set the record. Thank you to DOGE! In reality, most government work is so mind numbing boring that people have to have the incentive of a cushy job after to supplement their retirement pay (where they use their influence, connections or security clearance from their government job).....or extra money from bribes. My favorite political cartoon is a drawing of five men on a road crew. Only one is working and the others just watching. And two of those watching look related and two of the others watching also look alike. (You hire your relatives and only the new guy has to work)
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Rumblehog 8/23/2025 7:34:33 AM (No. 1994322)
Please get rid of the 50M(!) H-1B Visa overstays squatting on our sacred soil. Please end the practice of "Chain Migration." Please end "Birthright Citizenship" (in process, I know) Please terminate the wire transfer of money by any means other than by banks, and even there make it rare. Please end...
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Reply 8 - Posted by: JackBurton 8/23/2025 7:52:19 AM (No. 1994329)
2.1 million still on the do.... I mean... employed? I think that number could be cut in half.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mobyclik 8/23/2025 8:54:27 AM (No. 1994348)
May as well prepare yourselves for the incessant sob stories from the useless media. ''Little Bobby and LaQueesha are going to starve or freeze to death because of that heartless beast, Trump.''
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Reply 10 - Posted by: thefield 8/23/2025 8:59:05 AM (No. 1994353)
Far as I can tell it held steady 2017 to 2020 at 2.1 then went up due to covid.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Encore 8/23/2025 9:15:32 AM (No. 1994362)
Good start. Now, actually train the employees you have left and hire competent people from here on. Believe me, I worked for the government for 30 years, I know.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: JunkYardDog 8/23/2025 9:41:41 AM (No. 1994373)
This is wonderful news, go President Trump!! It's a wake up call to all the self-entitiled so called 'public employees' who believe that the country exists to serve THEM, not that THEY serve the public. ANd they don't get to choose any favorite's based on politics. They want to eliminate oppression do they? The only oppression left to overcome in the USA is IGNORANGE. It affects all of us.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: chance_232 8/23/2025 9:58:03 AM (No. 1994378)
Thats a 12.5% reduction of the government workforce. I think another 12.5% reduction could be had, easily.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: swarfer 8/23/2025 10:12:26 AM (No. 1994382)
A core of government workers keeps the system functioning. Unfortunately many positions are unnecessary or redundant protected by bosses who have no incentive to trim their workforce, but see their job as figuring out how to expend their full budget which keeps dead weight. Much effort is given to creating fancy sounding titles for essentially do nothing positions. I’ve worked civil service and seen it first hand. Ask the question, “what did you do for the taxpayers today?” and you’ll likely get “huh?”
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Reply 15 - Posted by: JrSample 8/23/2025 10:38:09 AM (No. 1994385)
What will Yosemite National Park do now that they no longer have a non-binary geneticist on staff who studies bats?
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Reply 16 - Posted by: NamVet70 8/23/2025 10:40:47 AM (No. 1994387)
The term "Federal Workforce" is an oxymoron. The proper term is the federal payroll.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: iraengneer 8/23/2025 11:23:48 AM (No. 1994408)
Nice, but not nearly enough. Friends, I estimate that AT LEAST 75% of Federal activities and agencies lack ANY authoriization under that Constitution (remember Article 10?) to exist at all! and are therefore illegal to exist! Accordingly, the personnel there should be immediately terminated. Today is good. Get rid of the awful Federal leviathan. The country will be much the better for it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 8/23/2025 11:36:43 AM (No. 1994413)
Good question # 3. According to the Brave Browser's AI assistant, the Federal workforce grew by 6% (approximately 144,000 jobs) during Biden's term. President Trump is thus on track to eliminate over twice as many Federal jobs as Biden created.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: anniebc 8/23/2025 12:50:52 PM (No. 1994456)
No new reductions expected this year. Thank you, DOGE, but we've got a long way to go. Next year is an election year, so I guess we can't expect any reductions next year either. If biden added half this number in four years, you can say government really only dropped 6.25 percent of longer termed jobs. The IRS only cut 7K! We gotta do better. Wake me when I can be impressed, and don't try to impress me by saying it's the largest cut in 80 years (refer to first sentence of poster 6). Maybe it's just me.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: laurenc 8/23/2025 5:33:59 PM (No. 1994524)
I'm waiting for the Dems to say only Black employees were fired.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: DVC 8/23/2025 6:26:45 PM (No. 1994541)
Excellent news. More, please.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Starboard_side 8/23/2025 7:39:13 PM (No. 1994558)
As Democrats are fond of saying when they initiate a new government program, "this is a good first start".
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