The federal government continued to shed jobs in July as the Trump administration aggressively downsizes the federal work force.
Federal government jobs decreased by 12,000 last month, according to the Labor Department’s monthly employment report on Friday. Since its peak at the beginning of the year, the federal government has lost 84,000 jobs.
The decline is the latest indication that President Trump is shrinking the federal work force significantly. On Thursday, the Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources arm, said that the Trump administration was paying about 154,000 employees not to work since it began offering resignation incentives to federal workers.
But even that number, which represents only the share of workers who accepted an offer to resign early in exchange for months of pay, does not capture the full employment picture. It does not include the thousands of people who were laid off or fired.
Sydney Ember is a Times business reporter, covering the U.S. economy and the labor market.
Eileen Sullivan is a Times reporter covering the changes to the federal work force under the Trump administration.
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