It has been revealed that the number of civil servants laid off from three departments in the massive federal downsizing that began immediately after the Trump administration took office has exceeded 65% of all laid offs.
According to the Federal News Network, which reports federal government news, 161,519 federal employees left their jobs through voluntary retirement or forced layoffs between January and August 27th. More than half of them, 106,000, were concentrated in three departments: the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury, and the Department of Agriculture.
By department, 55,478 people were laid off from the Department of Defense, 28,958 from the Department of the Treasury, and 21,564 from the Department of Agriculture. In the Department of the Treasury, approximately 21,000 of the laid-off employees were from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Beyond these three ministries, the departments with particularly severe personnel cuts were the Department of Health and Human Services (13,448), the Department of Veterans Affairs (12,702), and the Department of the Interior (9,700).
Monthly federal layoffs, which began at 1,229 in January, increased to 22,507 in February, 14,309 in March, 18,925 in April, 3,672 in May, 4,600 in June, 41,153 in July, and 55,114 in August, are projected to reach approximately 300,000 civil servants by the end of the year, indicating a further reduction of over 100,000 in the remaining three months.