Last week it came out that roughly 75,000 Federal employee's had accepted the Trump Admin's "Fork in the Road" offer/buyout/deferred resignation it really just depends what you want to call it at this point. With 2.3 million Federal workers across the government those 75k equated to roughly 3.2% of the Federal workforce. That was just the first phase though.

Last week it was coming out about all the probationary workers that were being fired before they hit their year or two year mark (depends on the agency) which would have made them a hell of a lot harder to fire. As of this morning it is estimated that roughly 12k were fired at the end of last week from various agencies and departments including the Department of Energy, FAA, Small Business Admin, Office of Personal Management, Education Department, and others. Adding the 12k to the 75k the resulting 87k is roughly 3.7% of the workforce.

This week there are going to be more layoffs with it being rumored that up to 15k IRS workers could be laid off. Just adding in those 15k IRS workers would bring up past 4% to close to 4.5% of the workforce. That is a wild wild amount and something I honestly did not see coming. Each Department and Agency is also rumored to have to come up with reorganization plans and identify offices that either could be removed or combined. Doing this would further cut into the Federal workforce and lead to cost saving for the government. It would likely lead to government buildings being either repurposed or sold off leading to savings there.

Factoring in the 15k bringing us to 102k I do not think it is out of the realm of possibilities that we could end up this year with over 150k jobs removed. That would mean roughly a 6.5% reduction in the size of the Federal workforce! An enormous number for a single year.