The Trump administration's efforts to dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce appear on pace to surpass the record workforce reductions under the Clinton administration. The rapid-fire restructuring of major federal agencies, mass terminations, buyouts, and resignations, however, could see him achieve in mere months more than Clinton did in eight years.
During the 1990s, President Bill Clinton reduced the size of the federal civilian workforce from roughly 2.2 million to 1.8 million, largely through federal buyouts. Upper estimates put the figure at 426,200 federal jobs eliminated. That reduction stands as the largest cut to the federal headcount since World War II.
Civilian workforce figures exclude military personnel and United States Postal Service (USPS) and most totals refer to executive branch employees, who make up the lion's share of the federal payroll. Those employees are also the administration's top priority for cuts as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk works to axe trillions in spending from the budget.
Early in this second Trump administration, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) coordinated a large-scale federal buyout, offering employees the option of resigning to secure pay through Sept. 30.
The administration said that about 75,000 employees took the offer, accounting for roughly 3% of the 2.3 million federal civilian employees. Trump had hoped for as many as 5%-10% to take the deal and several major agencies have begun to offer a second round of buyouts, hoping that the ongoing terminations will make employees less hesitant to accept.
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Trump will still need to reduce the headcount by roughly 200,000 to break the Clinton record. Assessing the exact figure of firings under Trump thus far is difficult, in no small part due to the intervention of judges who have delayed or ordered the reversal of some.
The cuts to the federal workforce did not, as leftists claim, harm the economy. In fact, they seem to have increased economic activity in the private sector, which is the sector where we want job growth.
March's Jobs Report crushed expectations, which was good news in and of itself BUT when you look at the report by the numbers, it's even better. Remember during the Biden years how they'd make a big deal about how many jobs they added and then we'd find out a couple of weeks later it was wrong or that the numbers added were government jobs?
Yeah.
That is not the case now under Trump.
Take a look:
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@RapidResponse47JOBS REPORT by the numbers:
- 228,000 jobs added, beating expectations by 88,000.
- 459,000 increase in full time workers.
- 209,000 increase in private employment.
- 13,000 increase in construction jobs.
- 22,900 increase in transportation & warehousing jobs.
- 23,700 increase in retail trade jobs.
- 232,000 increase in the labor force.
- 4,000 decline in federal government jobs.
The public supports Trump's deportations:
CBS Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Americans Support Trump's Mass Deportations
A majority of Americans support President Donald Trump's mass deportation program, a new poll from CBS News finds.
About 58 percent of American adults told CBS pollsters that they approve of Trump's program to "find and deport immigrants who are in the United States illegally," while 42 percent said they disapprove.
Most significantly, 56 percent of swing voters support Trump's deportation program, as well as 93 percent of Republicans. Likewise, majorities of white non-college-educated Americans, 69 percent, and white college-educated Americans, 56 percent, support the deportations.
Hispanic Americans are a bit more split on the issue, with 47 percent approving of Trump's deportations and 53 percent opposing.
Trump's immigration policies, poll after poll has found, remain largely popular with Americans.
The left is pushing what is essentially a push-poll that asks: Do you support Trump illegally and mistakenly sending law-abiding American citizens to El Salvadoran torture prisons?
This juiced question basically boils down to "Do you agree that bad deportations are bad?" and forces the answer that the left wants to claim indicates that Americans oppose the deportations.
For the next story, keep in mind that the media routinely scolds Americans that they're not allowed to have opinions on major political questions of the day because they're not "experts." Also note that media personnel usually have degrees in liberal arts and crafts subjects, or in "journalism," which is not a degree that confers any expertise in any subject matter "journalists" routinely offer their opinions about, suggesting that those opinions are expert and authoritative.
Meanwhile, Jake Tapper will scold you for saying that Kamala Harris sounds drunk or Biden is exhibiting the signs of senility, insisting that you cannot judge what drunk people sound like without a degree in neurology and organic chemistry, and you cannot spot someone slurring their words and losing their train of thought due to age-related dementia without advanced degrees in neurology and elder care.
So, NBC wanted an Authoritative Expert to trash Trump's reciprocal tariffs, and they found a... nurse to render her expert opinion on tariff policy,.
Don't worry, though -- her great grandfather was a congressman who passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, and as you know, "expertise" is passed on by genetics whenever the media decides it is.
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Her great-grandfather was behind the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act -- which many economic historians believe worsened the Great Depression. She thinks Trump's tariffs are "terrible."
Speaking of spotting intoxicated people, Kamala Harris has "finally" spoke out against Trump, and the media is giddy. This, they deem, is a "stunning" event, almost as stunning as the Fiercely Heterosexual (TM) Cory Booker standing on his feet and blabbing for twenty-four hours.
And Kamala sounds like she knocked back a few schnapps before speaking.
In my Non-Jake-Tapper-Certified Expert Opinion on detecting slurring.