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Trump Administration sheds 11,000 federal employees in six months
Posted on 8/7/17 at 5:40 pm
Posted on 8/7/17 at 5:40 pm
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The Trump administration has shed nearly 11,000 federal employees during its first six months, reversing a two year trend of gains throughout the executive branch.
A July jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday showed non-postal federal agencies employed 2,188,900 workers at the end of the month, down 2,200 from June and 10,700 from January, when Trump took office. President Trump has prioritized shrinking the civilian workforce, issuing an executive order -- and follow up guidance through the Office of Management and Budget -- calling on agencies to develop short and long-term strategies to cut employees. Agencies turned in preliminary drafts for those plans on June 30, which also required leaders to spell out what steps they have already taken to trim their rolls.
Not since 2013 have federal agencies slashed jobs on such a large scale. That was when sequestration, triggered by the 2011 Budget Control Act, forced agencies to take drastic measures to cut costs. Agencies shed nearly 57,000 jobs that year, the largest drop off in any single year since 1997. The federal government began making net hiring gains again in mid 2014, and added nearly 50,000 employees in 2015 and 2016 combined.
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In the coming months, OMB will evaluate and ultimately approve agency plans to slash their workforces. The final proposals are due by Sept. 30 and will be included in the administration’s fiscal 2019 budget proposal. In the meantime, some agencies are already using separation incentives to push employees out the door. Trump’s fiscal 2018 blueprint called for a net reduction of only 1,000 civil servants, as job losses at most agencies were set to be mostly offset by gains at the Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs departments.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 5:42 pm to Sentrius
It's shite like this that makes me chuckle every time Never Trumpers say that Trump really is just a democrat/liberal and not conservative at all.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 5:44 pm to Sentrius
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It's shite like this that makes me chuckle every time Never Trumpers say that Trump really is just a democrat/liberal and not conservative at all.
Especially compared to "conservative" presidents like Bush
Posted on 8/7/17 at 5:44 pm to Sentrius
POTUS Trump needs to take a long hard look at the U.S. Postal Service. It is strongly unionized but as a group those Federal employees are among the worst of the worst.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 5:48 pm to Sentrius
Just another million to go and we should have fully employed busy "Public Servants".
Posted on 8/7/17 at 5:53 pm to Sentrius
Government employment is perhaps the biggest entitlement in this country. The actual number of employees needed to provide safety, the only fully justified role for a governing body, is a tiny fraction of those sucking at the bloated teats of our American hog of a government.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 5:58 pm to Sentrius
The real cuts need to happen at middle management. Those assholes sit in their corner offices and draw their fat six figure salaries and do absolutely nothing.
I've seen it firsthand.
I've seen it firsthand.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 5:59 pm to Sentrius
Nice job, Trump.
Everybody approves except people that get rich off of Big Government -- and they are all trying to Oust you from the Oval Office.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 6:13 pm to Sentrius
Wow not cool, my friend Sharkeitha lost her position as the assistant to the undersecretary of the assistant diversity manager at the national endowment for the arts and she lost her healthcare and now her gender dysphoria and chronic fatigue syndrome is going untreated
Posted on 8/7/17 at 6:13 pm to Sentrius
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It's shite like this that makes me chuckle every time Never Trumpers say that Trump really is just a democrat/liberal and not conservative at all.
Well, i'm not sure if he's conservative.. but he's certainly not for big government
Posted on 8/7/17 at 6:17 pm to Keltic Tiger
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POTUS Trump needs to take a long hard look at the U.S. Postal Service. It is strongly unionized but as a group those Federal employees are among the worst of the worst.
The fact that Federal employees are allowed to unionize is the one of most gross abuses in our system and is largely responsible for the crippling debt we see. Abolishing them should be job one.
The very thought that public sector employees require unions is fricking laughable.
This post was edited on 8/7/17 at 6:28 pm
Posted on 8/7/17 at 6:19 pm to Sentrius
And you want to know one of the reasons why the Deep State has their panties in a wad?
Posted on 8/7/17 at 6:22 pm to Sentrius
that is .005% They should cut 10% in the next 90 days
Freeze all non military hiring, get rid of all Obama employees first
this is not rocket science
Freeze all non military hiring, get rid of all Obama employees first
this is not rocket science
Posted on 8/7/17 at 6:23 pm to Sentrius
Now we know who is available to pick that fruit
Posted on 8/7/17 at 6:24 pm to Scoop
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The very thought that public sector employees require unions is fricking laughable.
This is a universal truth - I cannot imagine the dysfunction that allowed this to become standard.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 6:27 pm to Sentrius
Now we know who these Democrat posters are...
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