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• Trump defends cutting nearly 300,000 feds from their ‘boring’ jobs - January 20, 2026

• By Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  President Trump on Tuesday touted shedding nearly 300,000 employees from the federal payroll during his first year back in the White House as part of a rambling address to reporters largely devoted to defending his administration’s crackdown on immigrant communities and dissent and threatened expansionism.
  
  The comments on the federal workforce came during a more than hour-long presentation at the start of a briefing with reporters aimed at highlighting the administration’s first-year accomplishments. Trump read prepared remarks noting that the federal payroll has fallen by 270,000 workers since his inauguration last January, though he quickly inflated that figure to “millions.” The Office of Personnel Management has estimated federal job losses to the tune of 317,000 during fiscal 2025.

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