Federal government lost 9% of its workers in 2025

Axios - There are 271,000 fewer federal employees than there were at the start of 2025 — about a 9% drop...

• The sharp decline is a result of President Trump's efforts — initially spearheaded by Elon Musk's DOGE — to drastically reduce the size of the federal government.

Most who left the federal workforce weren't technically fired. The bulk of the departures happened in October — when 162,000 people, mostly those who took Musk's "fork in the road," were officially off the books, per the Labor Department.  More