This post was republished with permission from Zero Hedge
Does cutting government headcount make it work more effectively?
From firing inspectors-general, to mass layoffs in the Department of Education, the federal workforce is being scaled back.
So far, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of 12 of these terminations, while scores of workers are leaving voluntarily.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows Trump’s federal layoffs, based on data from CNN.
Ranked: Federal Layoffs by Agency in 2025
In the table below, we show more than 51,000 federal job cuts as of July 14, 2025:
So far, 34 agencies or sub-agencies have made job cuts either through layoffs or notices of termination.
As a result, Washington D.C. is home to the highest number of layoffs in the country in 2025, with six agencies seeing at least 80% of their workforce eliminated.
Most notably, USAID’s closure resulted in about 10,000 layoffs, with 83% of its programs being shut down.
Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration cut about 42% of its workforce, equal to approximately 2,700 employees.
Even more staggeringly, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) cut 86.4% of its staff.
For perspective, the federal headcount stood at about three million employees in early 2025, with 50% working in the sector for more than 10 years.
Overall, the U.S. ranks 11th out of 80 countries by share of government workers per capita, based on 2023 figures.
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Noted that US AID and the Institute on Museums and Library group were closed down 100%. Having never heard of them I looked to see what they did. Essentially they exist to give away tax payer money….for, per their mission statement, the public good…but essentially that is what they do, give away money and help libraries and museums figure out ways to get money. And I bet they did it from home and it was a cushy job.
Good riddance to them. And BTW … these two groups were busy funding the 20% of every 80/20 issue in the nation and world. Pushing the 20% … all on the taxpayer debt.
Sounds like Starbucks is going to have a wave of new employees.
Well done Mr. President! This is what I voted for.
Buried at the end of the list is 5,400 useless bureaucrats FIRED from the Defense Dept. … which only represents 0.8% of the massive Defense Dept. mathematically placing the total # of DOD employees at 675,000 employees!! No wonder US Defense is the king of the world.
I doubt we will miss these DEI and global warming “specialists” from our military. Good riddance.