The May jobs report came out today. The graph shows the number of federal employees since December 2021 (not seasonally adjusted). I cut and pasted the dates for December 2024 and May 2025, essentially the change since Trump returned to office:
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| FRED Source Data (since 1939): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CEU9091000001 |
The graph shows the number of federal employees falling from 3,020 in December 2024 to 2,950 in May 2025. But the units are "Thousands of Persons" so we are talking a change from 3,020,000 to 2,950,000 employees. That amounts to a decrease of 70,000 employees in five months, or 14,000 per month on average.
At that rate, all federal employees could be gone in about 210.7 months. That's 17 years, 6 months, and 21 days give or take, if they keep at it 7 days a week.
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