{"id":163587,"date":"2025-09-07T06:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163587"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:41:31","slug":"trump-slashes-federal-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163587","title":{"rendered":"Trump Slashes Federal Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT says: Here\u2019s the gist of what that <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/warning-bureaucrats-are-back-from-the-beach-ba932584\">Wall Street Journal opinion column (Sept. 6, 2025)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Federal workforce shrinking:<br \/>\nBLS establishment survey shows federal government employment fell by 15,000 in August and is down 97,000 since the January 2025 peak.<\/p>\n<p>Planned reductions:<br \/>\nScott Kupor (director of OPM under Trump) stated that at the start of 2025 there were about 2.4 million civilian federal employees.<br \/>\nBased on agency plans, OPM projects the year will end with about 2.1 million employees \u2014 a 12.5% reduction.<\/p>\n<p>How it\u2019s happening:<br \/>\n~80% of these reductions are from voluntary resignations, mostly through the Deferred Resignation Plan (DRP), which offers eligible employees eight months of paid leave if they step down.<\/p>\n<p>Hybrid work crackdown:<\/p>\n<p>Trump issued an Inauguration Day executive order ending remote work for most federal employees.<\/p>\n<p>Hybrid model workers dropped from 61% in late 2024 to 28% by Q2 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Now 46% of federal employees are fully on-site, compared to a 21% national average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT says: Here\u2019s the gist of what that Wall Street Journal opinion column (Sept. 6, 2025): Federal workforce shrinking: BLS establishment survey shows federal government employment fell by 15,000 in August and is down 97,000 since the January 2025 peak. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163588,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163587\/revisions\/163588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}