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2026-04-19 Home Front: Politix

Nearly 300,000 fewer federal workers in just one year. More leaving than joining.

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Posted by trailing wife 2026-04-19 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1824 views ] Top

1 Meta targets May 20 for first wave of layoffs; additional cuts later in 2026

Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-19 01:04|| 2026-04-19 01:04|| Front Page Top

2 Excellent!

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2026-04-19 01:51|| 2026-04-19 01:51|| Front Page Top

3 So we now have 300,000 fewer Federal employees with no noticeable negative impact? I believe there is a message beginning to surface here.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-19 04:26|| 2026-04-19 04:26|| Front Page Top

4 ^
Get your tax refund yet?
No, I didn't think so.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-19 07:15|| 2026-04-19 07:15|| Front Page Top

5

Given the average salary of a U.S. federal employee is approximately $97,456 per year as of 2025. (asked AI)

So axing 300,000 useless employees, saved taxpayers about $29.2Billion for that year.

Which means the 153.8 Million individual US taxpayers might have saved $189.85 a year each in taxes.

The Federal Gov / US Congress needs to make some SERIOUS cuts, and learn to live inside the previously collected revenues of the prior year.

MINUS 10% to pay off the national debt and save for future disasters & wars.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-04-19 07:26|| 2026-04-19 07:26|| Front Page Top

6 I've got an idea ...

Ukraine Government Looks to Increase Immigration From Africa to Bolster Workforce

Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-19 07:35|| 2026-04-19 07:35|| Front Page Top

7 Speaking of being trampled by a charging elephant...

(see article above ^)

Posted by Mercutio 2026-04-19 09:19|| 2026-04-19 09:19|| Front Page Top

8 Given the average salary of a U.S. federal employee is approximately $97,456 per year as of 2025.

Does that figure include benefits and office overhead, NN2N1? Off the top of my head, I’d guess that would add another 50% to the spend/savings.

Remember that DOGE, departmental, and Congressional searches for savings has continued quietly in the background all this time' so that the cuts are not just in personnel, but in projects, too. The Department of Education, for instance, will likely be shut down before President Trump leaves office at the rate they’re going, with a few select programs being moved over to Health & Human Services, where they were before President Jimmy Carter started getting bright ideas.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-04-19 11:33|| 2026-04-19 11:33|| Front Page Top

9 And even if 10% of the 300000 get private sector jobs they may actually turn their lives around and contribute to the federal tax base instead of taking from.

Posted by Airandee 2026-04-19 11:50|| 2026-04-19 11:50|| Front Page Top

10 Querying the internet:

The average total compensation for federal employees is approximately $143,643, which includes both salary and benefits. The average value of benefits alone is estimated to be around $44,021.

Among the 300,000 are the 75,000 who took President Trump’s early retirement package, which had them off the payroll as of September 2025. No doubt the rest of them now wish they had, too.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-04-19 11:56|| 2026-04-19 11:56|| Front Page Top

11 These ex-federal employees may now dedicate themselves to making VA a complete commie shithole.

Hopefully they will be as ineffective as they were in their previous jobs.

Posted by Regular joe 2026-04-19 13:57|| 2026-04-19 13:57|| Front Page Top

12 These ex-federal employees may now dedicate themselves to making VA a complete commie shithole.

They're off to an excellent start with their new governor (D) Spanberger. Hopefully they'll enjoy their socialist utopia.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-19 14:03|| 2026-04-19 14:03|| Front Page Top

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