WASHINGTON – More than 211,000 people have been forced out of their federal jobs since President Donald Trump took office in January, with cracks showing in the government’s ability to provide people with needed services, according to a new analysis by Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit focused on better government.
The group has been tracking Trump’s decimation of the federal workforce, which was composed of about 2.3 million civilian employees in 2022. It found that another 10,295 federal employees have left or been pushed out of their jobs in the last month.
A few factors triggered the latest round of people losing jobs. Most were hit after the government shutdown began in early October, when Trump arbitrarily eliminated their jobs at the Commerce, Treasury, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Homeland Security departments. Some were cut by the Justice Department’s Executive Office of Immigration Review. Some opted for expedited retirement at the Defense Department.
The Defense Department has been bleeding personnel more than any agency. More than 61,600 people there have left or been forced out in the last nine months. About 6,000 of them left in the last month.
