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The Trump administration has a goal to cut between 300,000 and 400,000 federal jobs, aiming to reverse a significant expansion of the federal workforce under former President Joe Biden, according to Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor.
In an Aug. 7 interview with CNBC, Kupor said between 300,000 and 400,000 federal jobs were added during the Biden administration. The current plan, he said, is to “return the federal workforce to essentially where it was when President Trump left office” in 2021.
Kupor noted that when President Donald Trump returned to office earlier this year, the federal workforce stood at roughly 2.4 million federal employees. He said the administration’s approach isn’t pursuing “radical” change but a practical effort to “right-size” the government.
“Nothing we’re doing here is radical,” he said, “We’re just trying to kind of say, ‘Hey, look, let’s right-size things.’”
According to the Labor Department, the federal workforce has already dropped by 84,000 jobs since January, CatholicVote reported Aug. 5.
Cutting the federal workforce has been a central priority of Trump’s second term. In February, Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to root out “waste, bloat, and insularity” within the bureaucracy. A federal court temporarily blocked the administration’s efforts to restructure agencies in May, but the Supreme Court lifted the injunction July 8.
