6 things about the federal labor that Trump wants to lay off: NPR

President Trump spoke at the Dinner of the Republican Member Member Meeting Meeting of Miami on January 27.

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For federal workers, this is really confusing: first of all, the federal recruitment frozen, announcing the announcement of the remote work and the re -classification of thousands of civil servants' positions. Then the email within the government scope on Tuesday provided almost all federal employees until February 6 to decide whether to choose a “deferred resignation plan”.

However, how do most Americans know so many groups of news-who do they work and what they do? This is the six things about this large number of workers:

What is the federal labor force?

According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the federal government hired about 2.4 million workers, excluding unified military personnel and US postal service employees. In contrast, Wal -Mart, the largest private sector employer in the United States, has 1.6 million workers.

Where do most federal employees work?

If you guessed that Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia, then you will be wrong, not a little bit. Although according to the Personnel Management Office, although a large number of federal labor force is concentrated in the Columbia Special Region and surrounding states (as of about 459,000 as of March 2024), 80 % of federal civil employees can be found in military bases and military bases. Government office: about 181,000 in California, 168,500 in Texas, 115,000 in Florida, and 88,000 in Georgia.

Don Moynihan, a professor at the Ford's Ford Public Policy School at the University of Michigan, said that this means that it will not feel the influence of layoffs in the DC region, but it will be “scattered throughout the country.”

54 % of federal workers are 100 % live. This is based on the management and budget office cited from the Federal News Network in May 2024, which was originally posted on the spontaneous White House page. 46 % of the other people are qualified for remote operation, most of which are on the mixed timetable. They only have 10 % discounts are completely long -range.

In addition, according to Max Stier, president and CEO of public service partnerships, one -third of the uniform federal workers are veterans. The partnership describes itself as a special government and a stronger government and stronger. Democratic non -party non -profit organizations.

He said: “Most people do not understand that many people in the army must continue to serve because they want to continue service.”

Only several institutions and departments hire most workers. Their numbers have not increased too much

“Most (federal) Non -unified employees of civilians are either engaged in veteran affairs, the Ministry of Land and Safety or the Ministry of Defense. “

According to a report released by Pew Research Center this month, although it may be a traditional point of view, the relative scale of federal labor has not soared in recent years.

“and number Over time, the development of federal workers share The report said: “In recent years, civilian labor has always maintained stable.”

This is “Although our government is doing more things,” Stier added.

Federal workers' salary accounts for only a small part of government budget

Moynihan said this The government spends about $ 350 billion in federal employees in a $ 65 trillion budget each year. “

Josh Bivens, chief economist of the Institute of Economic Policy of the Party's Thicular Think Tank Economic Policy, said that this represents “a small part of the government's total-only about 5 % to 6 %.”

Some people are worried that cutting will affect important services and affect ordinary Americans

This depends on how many federal employees leave, which institutions and positions have the most right to start.

However, in any case, “Plan for retirement, health and income support-social security, medical insurance, medical subsidies-need management”.

He said: “It must be mentioned and reviewed for claims and needs to be solved.” “Payment to farmers needs to be handled and managed, and” key public items such as big popular monitoring and response are required. “

He added that the deeper government responsibilities, such as economic data collection and analysis, are also vital.

Stier provides some examples that may have problems. He said that the government said it would reduce the reduction of 10 %, but “If this is 50 % of the food safety inspector or 50 % of the air traffic controller or 50 % of the federal investigation bureau?”

He said, “What you are talking about is quite reduced … … It is completely unpredictable to who really goes away and decide to stay.”

There may be other disadvantages of cutting reduction

The purchase and incentives for reducing the number of federal employees are not fresh. During the presidential period of Bill Clinton, they tried it in the mid -1990s. However, according to the 1997 report of the so -called government accountability office, the results were mixed at best.

GAO concluded: “(A) Gencils often awarded acquisitions, rather than give priority to them to achieve specific organizational goals.”

The report said: “This has led to various unfavorable operations. For example, 15 institutions say that they have suffered losses of company memory and professional knowledge, and 11 institutions said that because key personnel have been separated, there is a backlog of work.”

As a result, Moynihan said that these institutions lost important skills and eventually hired more external consultants (some federal workers who quit smoking), for taxpayers at higher costs, “the private sector's employment market was the first to leave. “” ”

He said: “Thinking of rational employees, 'You know, I can create more things in the private sector than to establish more things in the government, which is not worth going to stay in this new environment.'