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• At least 148,000 federal employees have left government under Trump, good government group reports - August 4, 2025

• The Partnership for Public Service acknowledged that it’s difficult to track the number of civil servants who have departed because the Trump administration has not publicized much of the information.

  Sean Michael Newhouse, Government Executive

  More than 148,000 civil servants have involuntarily or voluntarily separated from the government workforce as of July 21, according to the Partnership for Public Service. The finding is part of a project that the nonpartisan good government group recently launched to serve as a “one stop shop” of information about President Donald Trump’s efforts to overhaul federal agencies.

  “We're seeing a pitch black battlefield of lots of carnage that is growing on a daily basis from the changes that the Trump administration is making to our government. And we have little pen lights of information that are vital to the public's understanding about what is happening,” said Partnership president and CEO Max Stier in a press call Thursday. “We think we need a flood light, and we have created the tracker to help aggregate and add to the understanding in a comprehensive way of some of the changes and harms that are taking place.”

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