The federal hiring crisis...according to the NY Times

Pretend your family made $150,000 per year and spent $250,000 per year and the NY Times said you shouldn't spend less money...because it was unfair to your children. Who cares if you go broke.

That's pretty much what's being presented below. The government deficit and lack of proper funding mirrors the example above. The socialists over at the Times can't seem to understand basic economics.

By the way, I'm not a fan of DOGE. Terrible tactics and an ineffective way to cut government spending. Also BTW...Trump is hemorrhaging spending just like Biden.

220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency

By Emily Badger, Francesca Paris and Alicia Parlapiano, NY Times

Jan. 9, 2026

The Trump administration shrank the federal work force by about 220,000 workers through November, representing about a 10 percent cut, according to new data that offers the first clear view of the president’s blitz to remake the government’s labor force. This decline, which also accounts for limited new hiring, has reversed the last decade of growth for America’s largest employer, returning the federal work force to roughly the size it was when President Trump took office the first time.

But the cuts went far deeper for some agencies and offices: They have had the effect of hollowing out decades-old functions of the federal government.

In many cases, the departures have whittled down agencies that hadn’t grown in years or benefited from the expansion of the federal work force over the last two decades. Most of that expansion has been driven by just one agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs. In other words, Mr. Trump’s cuts — some carried out haphazardly, then reversed — aren’t a simple rollback of recent government bloat, but a more fundamental change to what the government does.

“Reshaping the federal work force is essential to building a government that works for the American people, not the bureaucracy,” said Scott Kupor, the director of the federal Office of Personnel Management, in a statement. The broader effort, he added, “ensures taxpayer dollars support a work force that delivers efficient, responsive and high-quality services.”

Amid all the cuts, one agency has notably swelled: Immigration and Customs Enforcement expanded by about 30 percent through November, and more new hires have been announced since as the Trump administration continues to ramp up its deportation campaign.

The new data published by O.P.M. does not identify which workers departed under the “fork in the road” buyouts promoted by Elon Musk, which offered workers months of paid leave through last September to induce them to quit. The departure numbers released this week also don’t include workers who were eligible to retire in December under the deferred resignations program. Full numbers for the program are expected to be released in February.

In a typical year, more than 200,000 federal workers depart, and even more are newly hired. What makes last year’s numbers different is that more workers than usual left, while far fewer were brought on to replace them:

Workers who were let go and later reinstated may be counted in the data as both a separation and a new hire. Thousands of federal workers faced such dizzying reversals last year, as Mr. Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency swept through Washington in the first months of the administration firing workers with little accounting for which roles were essential. Some agency heads later reversed those decisions to ensure they could carry out fundamental jobs like responding to bird flu, maintaining the nation’s nuclear arsenal and processing the annual flood of Americans’ tax returns.

Other efforts by the administration to push out workers remain tied up in litigation; their effects aren’t fully accounted for in the new data. The administration, for instance, has tried to incapacitate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. About three-quarters of the workers there remain, according to the data, but since last February many of them have been told to halt their job functions, and the administration has fought in court to stop funding the agency altogether.

At other offices, including across the Department of Education and the U.S. Agency for International Development, staff reductions have had the effect of crippling programs the administration dislikes — regardless of laws mandating them, or congressional intent to fund them.

“The mission of government can’t occur absent federal employees to carry out those missions,” said Jacqueline Simon, the policy director for the American Federation of Government Employees. “And so they’ve figured out a way to undermine the ability of agencies to carry out their missions.”

The newly released data, which was published by the Office of Personnel Management, excludes some departments and types of workers, but it is the best available window into the federal government work force. Below, you can look up more than 500 agencies and sub-agencies, comparing their reported employment as of November 2025 with one year earlier: