Over 50K federal employees and their $2B in salaries eliminated under Trump in 2025

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has overseen the departure of 50,000 federal employees and trimmed nearly $2 billion in salary payments within its first year, according to data released by a taxpayer watchdog group. OpenTheBooks provided the “Swamp Update” in a Monday report highlighting the reduction in the federal workforce from 1,506,603 to 1,452,891 between 2024 and 2025, dipping to 53,712 fewer employees in government under President Trump than under former President Joe Biden. At the same time, the federal payroll got a $1.86 billion cut in the first year of Trump’s second term. Biden’s final year in office saw...