Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE plan
- On Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office reported that federal agencies spent about $6.7 billion on paid administrative leave for the Deferred Resignation Program in 2025, marking a 435% surge from 2023.
- In early 2025, the Trump Administration offered roughly 2 million federal workers full pay to resign by September, aiming to drastically reduce the federal workforce and government spending.
- The Partnership for Public Service found that agencies backfilled more than 20,500 positions left vacant by departures, with many new hires often possessing less experience in the same job categories.
- Sen. Patty Murray criticized the spending as "the most expensive way imaginable to make government worse," while OPM Director Scott Kupor asserted it will ultimately save $20 billion annually.
- Addressing tracking limitations, the GAO recommended that the Office of Personnel Management disclose unresolved data-quality issues and create a separate reporting category for paid leave used in workforce reduction efforts.
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Trump Paid Federal Employees $9.5 Billion Not to Work
“The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog,” CNN reports.
Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE plan
The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog.
Federal Staffers Were Paid $9.5B Not To Work In 2025
The New York Times reports: The Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 billion not to work during 2025, part of the president’s plan to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy and government spending, according to a new estimate from a congressional watchdog. The Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force … The post Federal Staffers Were Paid $9.5B Not To Work In 2025 appeared first on Joe.My.God..
DOGE Deferred Resignations Cost Taxpayers Nearly $10 Billion: GAO Report
Washington, D.C. — Federal agencies spent an estimated $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave in 2025, a sixfold increase from 2023, according to a new Government Accountability Office report examining workforce-reduction efforts under the Trump administration. GAO found that about $6.7 billion of the total was tied to the government’s Deferred Resignation Program, which allowed eligible federal workers to stop working while continuing to rec…
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