DC government workforce slashed by almost 20% since Trump took office
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According to recent data, the number of federal workers in the Washington, D.C. area has now reached a 30 year low, reduced by 60,000, from nearly 376,000 at the start of Trump’s second term to 312,500 in May.
The graph to the right shows how Trump’s arrival instigated the drop.
The Department of Education took the heaviest blow, with nearly 40 percent of its workforce slashed in 2025 as Trump made clear his goal: to dismantle the agency outright. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Treasury weren’t far behind, each shedding roughly a quarter of their staff, with the IRS bearing the brunt as the administration moved to gut tax enforcement.
Beyond those, USAID, Agriculture, HHS, the VA, and the Department of Labor all saw double-digit percentage losses in their workforce, with USAID and the USDA especially targeted.
What must also be noted is the lack of any significant consequences resulting from these reductions. It has had no impact on life in general. In fact, all economic indicators — which say the U.S. economy is generally doing well — suggest its only impact has been free up Americans and let them get on with their lives.
This however is only a start. A lot more non-workers in DC should get their walking papers. They contribute little or nothing, while squelching the freedom of the rest of us.
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There shouldn’t even be a Department of Education
That’s the plan.
Canada’s got one on the U. S. We have a Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation. I wish I was joking…..
Reminds me of the “outrage” when Federal “workers” received an email requesting the employee state a few of the things (work) they actually accomplished last week.
The outrage told us everything we needed to know. “How dare you” demand I not just work, but do something worthwhile.
The same type of person stated that cutting huuge numbers of X employees would destroy the platform. Seems to be working okay.
We’ve got government workers here in Canada who’re still squawking that they should actually come into their offices now that the “plague” is over.
The recent – and appropriately named – Slaughter decision by the Supreme Court has now opened the way for far greater such reductions as it affirmed the right of a President to fire anyone who works for any part of the Executive branch. I hope the axe falls particularly hard on the treasonous weasels lurking in the intelligence apparat.
I would also like to see the list of Executive branch employees run against publicly available databases of political contributions and anyone having donated more than trivial sums to the Democratic Party be cashiered.
Additionally, I would like most of the Executive branch agency HQs moved out of DC and environs entirely and dispersed broadly around the country. All of the HQs of agencies that are not simply shuttered outright that is. Serious pruning of the entire Executive branch table of organization is very much needed and will, one hopes, be significantly more advanced by the end of Trump’s 2nd term.
Here in Canada, just over 20% of the workforce is employed by the government.