One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump’s second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs.
The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees. Not since President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society vastly expanded the scope of the national government has the federal workforce been at this level.
It’s not merely that the feds have shed superfluous jobs — there are still over 4 million contract workers, after all. It’s that the White House has been targeting… Read More in Real Clear Politics