WASHINGTON – More than 199,000 federal workers have left their jobs or have been forced out by the Trump administration since January 2025, according to an alarming new analysis by Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit focused on better government.
That’s nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce, which was composed of about 2.3 million employees at the start of the year.
“We’re seeing the arson of our government,” Max Stier, president and CEO of Partnership for Public Service, told HuffPost. “The numbers are stunning. We can count 200,000, and the administration said 300,000, by the end of the year. That’s 1 in 8.”
The nonpartisan group has been tracking federal workforce cuts since President Donald Trump began his second term. On Tuesday, it released updated numbers to reflect new data it has collected from agencies and the Office of Management and Budget. Specifically, it has factored in new deferred resignation data for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Interior Department, reduction-in-force data for the Defense Department, and retirement data for the Department of Agriculture.
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