2025 United States federal mass layoffs

2 weeks ago - About 300,000 United States federal civil service layoffs have been announced by the second Trump administration, almost all of them attributed to the Department of Government Efficiency. On August 26, 2025, the Partnership for Public Service said just under 200,000 federal workers had already ...

November 21, 2025 - For reference, 115,900 workers left the federal government in all of 2023. The number is likely to be in that range in 2024 and could be exceeded in 2025, although it will be hard to differentiate normal turnover from deferred resignations.

October 1, 2025: Federal government shutdown goes into effect, as the Congress is unable to reach a short-term spending deal to keep the government funded. October 10, 2025: The Trump administration sends layoff notices to thousands of federal ...

November 26, 2025 - 12 states that “any reduction in force proposed, noticed, initiated, executed, implemented, or otherwise taken by an Executive Agency between October 1, 2025, and the date of enactment, shall have no force or effect.”

3 weeks ago - The number of federal employees who left their jobs in 2025 will total about 317,000, according to the Office of Personnel Management, after efforts by Elon Musk and the Trump administration to reshape the government workforce.

1 week ago - Month after month of firings, buyout offers and heightened uncertainty for the federal workforce has led to a mass exodus. By the end of 2025, some 317,000 federal employees will be out of the government, according to the Office of Personnel ...

5 days ago - 30, 2026, “no federal funds may ... initiated, executed, implemented, or otherwise taken by an executive agency between October 1, 2025, and the date of enactment, shall have no force or effect.”...

1 week ago - Month after month of firings, buyout offers and heightened uncertainty for the federal workforce has led to a mass exodus. By the end of 2025, some 317,000 federal employees will be out of the government, according to the Office of Personnel ...

The most recent number of federal employee departures is nearly 317,000. Following Trump’s directions for agencies to conduct reductions in force – or layoffs – probationary federal workers and those working under programs such as the ...

Under this assumption, the size ... that, as April 1, 2025, there have been 136,621 total exits from the federal workforce along with an additional 170,214 planned reductions....

4 days ago - Just before Election Day 2024, the federal workforce employed more than 2.3 million people. By the start of this month, the federal government had shed almost 213,000 jobs, according to the Partnership for Public Service.

April 1, 2025 - April 1, 2025, 10:09 am · | By Wesley Tharpe · Communities across the country have been reeling in recent weeks as billionaire Elon Musk, the DOGE team he leads, and the Trump Administration broadly continue their campaign of sweeping and haphazard layoffs across the federal government, with deeper cuts through agency plans now starting to unfold as well.

November 6, 2025 - Over the course of 2025, the Trump administration has moved forward with reductions in force, an effort to decrease headcount through the deferred resignation program, mass firings of probationary employees, a full return-to-office push and ...

3 weeks ago - 12 states that “any reduction in force proposed, noticed, initiated, executed, implemented, or otherwise taken by an Executive Agency between October 1, 2025, and the date of enactment, shall have no force or effect.” · “We understand ...

November 21, 2025 - The proposed rule draft, which will be subject to a 60-day public comment period once it has been published in the Federal Register, describes the current system for laying off federal employees as “outdated,” failing to keep pace with workplace trends.

1 day ago - Shortly after President Donald Trump took office in January, the Elon Musk-led DOGE office began cutting thousands of federal workers across various agencies, citing a need for reduced spending and less bureaucracy.

July 15, 2024 - Here are the highlights – or ... anti-government policies, some have estimated that there would be a loss of up to a million federal jobs if Project 2025 is implemented....

March 14, 2025 - Layoffs announced by U.S. employers ... agencies accounted for the bulk of these layoffs, with 62,530 federal workers dismissed in the first two months of 2025....

July 14, 2025 - If data for the subagencies of ... their counts are distinct because the firings happened before their official merger of July 1, 2025....

November 7, 2025 - Workforce reduction target: Coverage and government materials describe an overall public-service reduction of ~10% by 2028/29 (≈ 40,000 positions). (Reuters; Budget 2025; The Hill Times)