Government jobs slashed by 23K under Trump, Elon – Business News
The ranks of US authorities employees fell for a fourth straight month in April with non-postal employment falling by 8,500 as President Trump and adviser Elon Musk goal for drastic cuts within the federal workforce.
With the newest reductions, reported on Friday within the month-to-month nonfarm payrolls report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, federal authorities non-US Postal Service employment has declined by more than 23,000 thus far this 12 months.
That makes Trump probably the most aggressive president in reducing the federal workforce since Ronald Reagan, who oversaw a discount of about 46,000 in early 1981.
Non-US Postal Service employment has declined by more than 23,000 thus far this 12 months. AFP by way of Getty Images
Including postal employees, federal civilian employment fell by 9,000 in April and has declined by 26,000 thus far in 2025.
The White House, citing a media report, on Thursday stated 200,000 federal employees had been laid off since Trump took workplace and put Tesla CEO Musk on the helm of the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency tasked with thinning the ranks of authorities employees.
DOGE itself has not offered its own figures.
More than 75,000 federal employees have agreed to a type of buyout referred to as deferred retirement, however they are going to stay on authorities payrolls till later this 12 months.
In all, over 260,000 federal employees have been fired, taken buyouts or retired early, based on a Reuters tally.
The newest knowledge show Trump is probably the most aggressive president in reducing the federal workforce since Ronald Reagan, who oversaw a discount of about 46,000 in early 1981. AFP by way of Getty Images
The online betting web site Kalshi at present predicts Trump and Musk will cut about 300,000 federal employees by 12 months finish from a workforce that exceeded 2.4 million on the finish of 2024, based on BLS knowledge.
Should Trump’s cuts come close to that, they’d rank as the most important reductions to begin a new presidency since BLS began monitoring federal employment in 1950, exceeding the present file of 195,000 during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s first 12 months in 1953.
