(The Center Square) − The federal government is on pace to eliminate about 300,000 workers this year.

Office of Personnel Management director Scott Kupor said 80% of those employees would leave voluntarily and 20% would be fired. Kupor provided the figures to Reuters on Thursday. That's a 12.5% reduction in the federal workforce since January.

The U.S. government employs about 2.4 million federal workers, ex

President Donald Trump promised Americans a more efficient government when he took office for his second term. At first, his Department of Government Efficiency, with Elon Musk at the helm, led the charge. Musk has since left DOGE and had a public feud with the president.

When Trump created DOGE, he said it would be the government cost-cutting equivalent of the "Manhattan Proje

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