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Federal employees were paid nearly $7B not to work under DOGE effort: GAO
The Trump administration paid outgoing employees an estimated nearly $7 billion to not work as it encouraged them to leave the federal service, a government watchdog found in a Tuesday report. Federal workers’ use of paid leave increased 435 percent under the first two years of the Trump administration, a dynamic the Government Accountability Office…
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Source context: The federal government paid employees $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 as a result of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.The New York Times, citing a new estimate from the Government Accountability Office, reports that DOGE’s deferred resignations program increased p…
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The federal government paid employees $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 as a result of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.The New York Times, citing a new estimate from the Government Accountability Office, reports that DOGE’s deferred resignations program increased paid administrative leave by 435 percent in 2025. That’s an increase of over…
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
One Democrat called Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce “the most expensive way imaginable to make government worse.”
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The Trump administration paid outgoing employees an estimated nearly $7 billion to not work as it encouraged them to leave the federal service, a government watchdog found in a Tuesday report. Federal workers’ use of paid leave increased 435 percent under the first two years of the Trump administration, a dynamic the Government Accountability Office…
The study shows remarkable jumps in every metric used to assess paid leave. Salary costs attributable to paid leave jumped sixfold between 2023 and 2025.
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