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Tracking 2025 United States federal mass firings & resignations
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Every American should be so alarmed about this and the Privacy Act of 1974 needs to be updated so it can be properly enforced.
It is mind-boggling Orwellian tale
Musk’s Parting Gift: The Construction of a Surveillance State
Societal condition that evokes the oppressive, totalitarian society depicted in George Orwell's novel "1984" It signifies government control, propaganda, surveillance, disinformation
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Musk’s Parting Gift: The Construction of a Surveillance State
Societal condition that evokes the oppressive, totalitarian society depicted in George Orwell's novel "1984" It signifies government control, propaganda, surveillance, disinformation
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State (Gift Article)
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Every American should be so alarmed about this and the Privacy Act of 1974 needs to be updated so it can be properly enforced.
This, in addition to ending IRS Direct File, is 1 huge mistake amongst many
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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IRS to lay off taxpayer experience, DEI staff
It is not clear what will happen next to projects being done by the Taxpayer Experience Office, like making IRS notices to taxpayers more simple.
www.govexec.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This, in addition to ending IRS Direct File, is 1 huge mistake amongst many
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
"Extreme levels of fraud" — but no proof
We all should be extra alarmed at DOGE creating a master database of Americans' private information....probably breaking the Privacy Act of 1974
www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...
We all should be extra alarmed at DOGE creating a master database of Americans' private information....probably breaking the Privacy Act of 1974
www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...
What has DOGE done in Trump's first 100 days?
One hundred days into President Trump's second term, DOGE hasn't delivered on its promised savings, efficiency or transparency in meaningful ways. But it has amassed unprecedented power over data.
www.npr.org
April 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Extreme levels of fraud" — but no proof
We all should be extra alarmed at DOGE creating a master database of Americans' private information....probably breaking the Privacy Act of 1974
www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...
We all should be extra alarmed at DOGE creating a master database of Americans' private information....probably breaking the Privacy Act of 1974
www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...
@cnn.com provides a good breakdown about the largest confirmed cuts to the federal workforce: NIH, Dept of Veterans Affairs, Education, HUD, USAID. All of this is still ongoing and we're probably going to get very big numbers from workers opting for the Deferred Resignation Program.
Analyzing the scale of Trump’s federal layoffs in his first 100 days - Annette Choi and Danya Gainor, CNN
“About 70,000 people were fired from the VA, more than any other department, which accounts for 15% of total staff.”
“About 70,000 people were fired from the VA, more than any other department, which accounts for 15% of total staff.”
Analyzing the scale of Trump’s federal layoffs in his first 100 days | CNN Politics
Nearly 100 days. Wide-ranging and chaotic firings across at least 30 agencies.
www.cnn.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
@cnn.com provides a good breakdown about the largest confirmed cuts to the federal workforce: NIH, Dept of Veterans Affairs, Education, HUD, USAID. All of this is still ongoing and we're probably going to get very big numbers from workers opting for the Deferred Resignation Program.
Tracker updated with the elimination of the Millennium Challenge Corp aid agency, a loss of approximately 345 jobs. fedworkers.info
Tracking 2025 United States federal mass firings and resignations
Tracking 2025 federal government firings and resignations. Support a federal worker! Their work makes America great.
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April 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Tracker updated with the elimination of the Millennium Challenge Corp aid agency, a loss of approximately 345 jobs. fedworkers.info
“Not only is Musk vastly overinflating the money he has saved, he is not accounting for the exponentially larger waste that he is creating,” said Max Stier, the chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service.
What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too
“An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
“An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“Not only is Musk vastly overinflating the money he has saved, he is not accounting for the exponentially larger waste that he is creating,” said Max Stier, the chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service.
Tracker updated with 650 firings at Corporation for National and Community Service / AmeriCorps. CNCS has now been reduced by 84%. fedworkers.info
Tracking 2025 United States federal mass firings and resignations
Tracking 2025 federal government firings and resignations. Support a federal worker! Their work makes America great.
fedworkers.info
April 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Tracker updated with 650 firings at Corporation for National and Community Service / AmeriCorps. CNCS has now been reduced by 84%. fedworkers.info
Tracker updated with 1250 firings & resignations at FDIC news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...
FDIC Aims to Cut 1,200 Jobs as Trump Worker Purge Continues (1)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. intends to let go more than 1,200 employees as part of the Trump administration’s plans to slash the federal workforce.
news.bloomberglaw.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Tracker updated with 1250 firings & resignations at FDIC news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...
Love seeing federal service explained in maps & charts. the Dept of Interior is especially well distributed. No paywall link posted. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
April 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Love seeing federal service explained in maps & charts. the Dept of Interior is especially well distributed. No paywall link posted. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracker updated with 3 agencies slated for elimination by executive order: Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, U.S. Agency for Global Media, & The Institute of Museum and Library Services. A loss of 1517 positions. fedworkers.info
April 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Tracker updated with 3 agencies slated for elimination by executive order: Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, U.S. Agency for Global Media, & The Institute of Museum and Library Services. A loss of 1517 positions. fedworkers.info
Let's take this small win on this Friday. Since this new administration started, all the bad news for federal employees has typically been issued on Fridays, usually after working hours. apnews.com/article/trum...
Judge pauses Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
A federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ruled that the agency can’t go forward immediately with plans to mass fire hundreds o...
apnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Let's take this small win on this Friday. Since this new administration started, all the bad news for federal employees has typically been issued on Fridays, usually after working hours. apnews.com/article/trum...
Predict that the final count for the deferred resignation program (DRP) round 2 for federal workers will be quite high. 75K reportedly took DRP round 1. Predict that it will be between 150-225k, doubling or tripling round 1
April 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Predict that the final count for the deferred resignation program (DRP) round 2 for federal workers will be quite high. 75K reportedly took DRP round 1. Predict that it will be between 150-225k, doubling or tripling round 1
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One consequence of Trump’s mass firings of federal workers:
A bunch of highly motivated former public servants now thinking about running for office
Latest from @lauren-egan.bsky.social at @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/fired-gove...
A bunch of highly motivated former public servants now thinking about running for office
Latest from @lauren-egan.bsky.social at @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/fired-gove...
Fired Govt Workers Are Pissed Off and Running for Office
Could an army of dismissed feds deliver wins for Democrats up and down the ballot?
www.thebulwark.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
One consequence of Trump’s mass firings of federal workers:
A bunch of highly motivated former public servants now thinking about running for office
Latest from @lauren-egan.bsky.social at @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/fired-gove...
A bunch of highly motivated former public servants now thinking about running for office
Latest from @lauren-egan.bsky.social at @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/fired-gove...
Tracker has been updated with new/updated data for CFPB, HUD, Treasury. Percentage bar chart added fedworkers.info
April 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Tracker has been updated with new/updated data for CFPB, HUD, Treasury. Percentage bar chart added fedworkers.info
1500 people have been laid off at CFPB out of a total of 1758
www.foxbusiness.com/politics/cfp...
www.foxbusiness.com/politics/cfp...
CFPB to make sweeping job cuts as Trump admin refocuses agency
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) moved to make sweeping job cuts as the Trump administration looks refocus the agency's regulatory objectives with a smaller workforce.
www.foxbusiness.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
1500 people have been laid off at CFPB out of a total of 1758
www.foxbusiness.com/politics/cfp...
www.foxbusiness.com/politics/cfp...
At Treasury/IRS: 27,000 DRP signups: 22K (round 2) & 5K (round 1), 7k probationary employees fired. On track to lose up to 40% of its workforce.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
IRS faces mass exodus of workers
A Trump administration plan would ax 30,000-40,000 positions at the agency, while 22,000 workers have expressed interest in "deferred resignation."
www.politico.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
At Treasury/IRS: 27,000 DRP signups: 22K (round 2) & 5K (round 1), 7k probationary employees fired. On track to lose up to 40% of its workforce.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
USDA plans to layoff 9,000 workers, cutting back to 2019 staffing levels
EXCLUSIVE: The USDA is planning to dismantle its presence in Washington, D.C., according to several officials briefed on the plans, and will relocate those it does not lay off to three hubs around the country.
USDA to slash headquarters, other staff and relocate some to new 'hubs' around the country
Mass layoffs at the Agriculture Department coming within weeks, with Washington facing significant cuts but regional employees also seeing reductions.
buff.ly
April 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
USDA plans to layoff 9,000 workers, cutting back to 2019 staffing levels
fedworkers.info tracker updated to include 20k anticipated layoffs at the Dept of Treasury/IRS
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Tracking 2025 federal government firings and resignations. Support a federal worker! Their work is what makes America great.
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April 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
fedworkers.info tracker updated to include 20k anticipated layoffs at the Dept of Treasury/IRS
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“It’s a truism that Americans do not realize how much good the federal government does in their lives. But now there’s an army spreading out to remind them,” the writer @msifry.bsky.social says of the resistance growing within America’s 2.4 million civilian federal workers.
Opinion | Trump and Musk Have Created a New Kind of Opposition in Federal Workers
Federal workers can become the standard bearers of the Democratic opposition.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Challenger Report: Over the last two months, DOGE actions have been attributed to 280,253 layoff plans of federal workers and contractors impacting 27 agencies...
This tracks what fedworkers.info is tracking: 206,833 firings + 75k individuals who took DRP
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This tracks what fedworkers.info is tracking: 206,833 firings + 75k individuals who took DRP
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Federal Cuts Dominate March 2025 Total: 275,240 Announced Job Cuts, 216,670 from DOGE Actions | Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.
In March 2025, U.S.-based employers announced 275,240 job cuts, a staggering 205% increase from the same period in 2024, largely impacted by DOGE plans, while hiring plans dramatically decreased, mark...
www.challengergray.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Challenger Report: Over the last two months, DOGE actions have been attributed to 280,253 layoff plans of federal workers and contractors impacting 27 agencies...
This tracks what fedworkers.info is tracking: 206,833 firings + 75k individuals who took DRP
www.challengergray.com/blog/federal...
This tracks what fedworkers.info is tracking: 206,833 firings + 75k individuals who took DRP
www.challengergray.com/blog/federal...
HHS workers constitute less than 1% of its spending.
The overwhelming majority of the money is spent through Medicare, for the health care of people older than 65, or through Medicaid, for people with low incomes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
The overwhelming majority of the money is spent through Medicare, for the health care of people older than 65, or through Medicaid, for people with low incomes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
Federal Health Workers Make Up Less Than 1% of Agency Spending
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency’s money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing ho...
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
HHS workers constitute less than 1% of its spending.
The overwhelming majority of the money is spent through Medicare, for the health care of people older than 65, or through Medicaid, for people with low incomes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
The overwhelming majority of the money is spent through Medicare, for the health care of people older than 65, or through Medicaid, for people with low incomes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
1000s of federal workers have been placed on administrative leave and locked out of their offices and computers. Workers on admin leave are being paid but can't do their work.
DOGE, OPM and OMB should testify under oath about how this is "efficient." News flash: it isn't.
DOGE, OPM and OMB should testify under oath about how this is "efficient." News flash: it isn't.
March 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
1000s of federal workers have been placed on administrative leave and locked out of their offices and computers. Workers on admin leave are being paid but can't do their work.
DOGE, OPM and OMB should testify under oath about how this is "efficient." News flash: it isn't.
DOGE, OPM and OMB should testify under oath about how this is "efficient." News flash: it isn't.
@nytimes.com tracker is showing 210 confirmed cuts and 900 planned reductions to CFPB. Contradicts this @nytimes.com article that 200 of these have been rehired. Judge has also blocked mass firings to CFPB. fedworkers.info tracker is leaving this blank
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Dismantling CFPB (Gift Article)
The bureau has been in turmoil as the Trump administration moved to fire hundreds of employees, ordered the rest to stop working and closed offices.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
@nytimes.com tracker is showing 210 confirmed cuts and 900 planned reductions to CFPB. Contradicts this @nytimes.com article that 200 of these have been rehired. Judge has also blocked mass firings to CFPB. fedworkers.info tracker is leaving this blank
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
@nytimes.com tracker is also showing 1300 cuts to Voice of America. on Friday, a judge blocked those firings www.wlrn.org/americas/202...
Voice of America wins in court, for now, as judge blocks Trump administration from firing staff
The federal judge's order also bars the Agency for Global Media from terminating grant funding for its broadcast outlets, including Doral-based Radio Martí.
www.wlrn.org
March 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@nytimes.com tracker is also showing 1300 cuts to Voice of America. on Friday, a judge blocked those firings www.wlrn.org/americas/202...
According to OPM data (Sept 2024), USAID has 3293 US based employees and 1507 foreign/unspecified employees for a total of 4800 employees. Unless OPM data is incorrect, the 10k number floated by @nytimes.com and other sources is not correct.
I suspect the 10k number includes contractors.
I suspect the 10k number includes contractors.
March 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
According to OPM data (Sept 2024), USAID has 3293 US based employees and 1507 foreign/unspecified employees for a total of 4800 employees. Unless OPM data is incorrect, the 10k number floated by @nytimes.com and other sources is not correct.
I suspect the 10k number includes contractors.
I suspect the 10k number includes contractors.