“Disappointing” bitch: Federal labor has dropped by just 1%, showing consolidation measures by bureaucracy, experts say

Data show that federal labor has dropped by only 1% in the first few months of the president Donald Trump’s Experts told Fox News Digital that the second semester showed “the disappointing effect of the doorman” and the degree to which bureaucracy ruled in the United States.

Figures released by the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) show that the United States employees 2,289,472 federal workers as of March 31, which is down from 2,313,216 on September 30, 2024. The reduction of more than 23,000 positions “reflects the administration’s early efforts to streamline government and eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy,” OPM said in a press release.

Alex Nowrasteh, vice president of economic and social policy research at the Cato Institute, told Fox News Digital.

“No matter what these numbers are, it’s not enough to be fired. It’s not enough in the federal labor force. It’s a disappointing effect Doge He added that it cannot increase the scale of the reduction in federal labor force. ” he added.

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Trump signed an executive order in February directing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to coordinate with federal agencies and make massive cuts in federal staffing numbers.

The order is reflected in the new data, indicating that from April 2024 to January 2025, agents hired an average of 23,000 new monthly employees per month, but once the recruitment freeze was fully implemented, it fell by nearly 70% per month to just 7,385 per month.

Peter Morici, an economist and business professor at the University of Maryland, told Fox News numbers, “basically, Elon Musk Pour some ice water into the ocean to hit its rising temperature. ”

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“Unless you get rid of the function, it’s hard to get rid of people. Look, he was able to phase out the U.S. Agency because he took all the money,” Molic said. “For example, it’s hard to cut the business sector unless you don’t want the numbers you collect.”

“It will take more than four years,” Molic added. “Look at how all the special interests arise when they’re just having problems with Medicare reform. Over the years, the federal bureaucracy has spread not only in Washington, but across the country.”

He added: “When you talk about cutting it, you are talking about impacting the local economy, the interests of members of Congress, etc.”

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David Hebert, an economist at the American Institute of Economics, said the decline in OPM reports is certainly a start.

“The real challenge for President Trump is that the federal government takes too much responsibility,” he added in a statement on Fox News. “If the president and Congress take the administration seriously, they need to go beyond ‘waste, fraud and abuse’ and hope to alleviate the responsibility that the federal government should not assume in the first place.”

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OPM said “thousands of workers” will drop from Rolls in October 2025, when more workers set out through a delayed resignation program, which was offered to employees to cut labor.

OPM said thousands of employees who are terminating are still on government salaries due to court orders currently being challenged by the government.

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“The American people deserve a lean, efficient and focused government on core priorities,” Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell said in a statement.

“This data marks the first step in President Trump’s vision for a disciplined, responsible federal workforce, and that’s just the beginning.”

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Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce have been severely resisted by Democrats and various courts, with opponents saying the administration is cutting key work.

Andrew Mark Miller of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.