Independent, UK- The Trump administration has seen a mass exodus of more than 10,000 government lawyers, with roughly one in five attorneys who worked in the federal workforce at the end of 2024 no longer working for the administration by March 2026, a new analysis from the New York Times found.
Across multiple departments, President Donald Trump pushed lawyers out of government work as he sought to reduce the number of federal employees, get rid of entire agencies and pressure attorneys to swiftly implement his agenda regardless of constitutionality.
The Department of Education, which Trump is seeking to close permanently, lost more than 50 percent of its lawyers who were employed before Trump was inaugurated, according to the analysis. The Justice Department, which the president has used to go after his political opponents, has seen a 21 percent decrease in its attorney count.
The only department to gain lawyers was the Department of Homeland Security, which required more litigation due to the spike in immigration cases as a result of Trump’s mass deportation plan.
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