Finally we have an idea of how many federal workers Trump has expelled

Around 149,000 employees have left the federal government since President Donald Trump took office in January and began to dismantle the administrative state, according to a New analysis.

The data of the Public Service Association, a non -profit organization that advocates a more effective federal government, offers a snapshot of the deep cuts of the workforce that has sunk morality in the agencies of the entire bureaucracy. The administration has not been transparent about reductions, which makes comprehensive estimates difficult.

The group said that the largest workforce reductions have affected the departments of Treasury, Agriculture and Defense, which have lost around 31,000, 22,000 and 20,000 employees, respectively. The Department of Health and Human Services has lost approximately 13,000.

The United States Agency for International Development, the Trump aid agency, almost unilaterally demolished, represents 10,000 employees who have left, the association for public service said.

The federal government as a whole includes around 2.3 million civilian employees.

“We are seeing repeated instances in which they have, in a non -strategic way, let go [of] Many people who provide vital functions. “

– Max Stier, Association for Public Service

Max Stier, the group president, told reporters on a call on Thursday that the cuts have led to “phenomenal waste”, since the administration has pursued them and hurt the critical government functions that must be fixed. He pointed out that in many cases the agencies have tried to bring back the workers who renounce or were fired.

“This is one of the things that we are seeing repeated instances in which they have, in a non -strategic way, let go [of] Many people who provide vital functions, “said Stier.” And then they look up and realize, ‘Wow, we will not be able to do something that is quite important, and we will have to rent again to people’ “.

The White House has achieved its reductions in the workforce through a combination of deferred resignation offers, early retirement programs and layoffs; Many workers have chosen to leave since the administration seems to have the intention of making them miserable. Last week, the Department of Agriculture told the workers in the Washington region, DC, that they will have to move hundreds or thousands of miles away if they want to keep their jobs.

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The Public Service Association said it improvised its estimate through official government reports, as well as news. The group pointed out that their figures do not take into account workers who may have been temporarily reinstalled under court order, or those that have been placed on administrative license.

They could spend months or even years before Trump’s complete cuts are closest. On Thursday, the Washington Post published a report To say that the government is paying 154,000 employees so that they do not work under their deferred resignation program, citing two administration officials. The program allowed qualified federal workers to renounce their work and are still paid until September.

Labor unions challenged the legality of the Deferred Resignation Program, but a federal judge then cleared the way for the program to continue. Many workers chose to take the offer during a second round, while others chose to accept early retirement programs.

Many of the cuts were headed by the so -called government efficiency department, or Dogle, which, according to the president, was headed by the ally of billionaire Trump Elon Musk before the two fall. On Thursday, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) He published a report by the Senate Democrats who estimated that Dege had wasted $ 21.7 billion, mostly when paying people so that they do not work under the Deferred Resignation Program.

Blumenthal’s report said the authors had to trust news reports and make certain assumptions about the cuts, since the Trump administration seemed intentional “to keep Congress and the public in the dark.”