Trump Cuts Shrink Federal Workforce Across Nearly All Agencies

President Donald Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce in 2025 hit every major agency last year — with cabinet departments including Education, Housing and Treasury taking the brunt of the downsizing, according to government data released Thursday.

More than 322,000 employees have left agencies since Trump took office, with departures outpacing new hires by more than three-to-one. The figures from the Office of Personnel Management — the most up-to-date snapshot of federal employment data — show the workforce undergoing its most dramatic transformation in decades. That followed Trump’s move to enact a hiring freeze on his first day in office and put Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk in charge of a wide-ranging effort to cut government spending.