The Trump administration is moving full steam ahead with one of its most dramatic campaign promises: shrinking Washington’s bloated federal workforce.
According to new estimates, roughly 300,000 federal civilian employees are expected to exit their jobs by the end of 2025 — a reduction of about 12.5% since January.
Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), told Reuters that “80% of those employees would leave voluntarily and 20% would be fired.” If his projection holds, it will mark the sharpest workforce contraction in decades, nearly doubling the attrition rate of recent years.
