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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort

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  1. 16 September
  2. Latest16 Sept, 22:17

    US government paid federal employees $9.5bn not to work amid Doge cuts – report

    GAO report shows how use paid administrative leave rose by 435% from 2023 to 2025 and incurred a sixfold cost The US government paid federal workers $9.5bn not to work in 2025 as part of the Trump administration ’s attempts to shrink the federal workforce. As part of efforts by the “department of government efficiency” (Doge), spearheaded by Elon Musk , federal agencies’ use of paid administrative leave rose 435% from 2023 to 2025 – costing six times what the government spent in 2023 – according to a new report released on Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent watchdog. Continue reading...

    The GuardianThe Guardian•Maya Yang
  3. Follow-up16 Sept, 14:17

    Federal employees were paid nearly $7B not to work under DOGE effort: GAO

    The Trump administration paid outgoing employees an estimated nearly $7 billion to not work as it encouraged them to leave the federal service, a government watchdog found in a Tuesday report. Federal workers’ use of paid leave increased 435 percent under the first two years of the Trump administration, a dynamic the Government Accountability Office…

    The HillThe Hill•Rebecca Beitsch
  4. Follow-up16 Sept, 12:59

    Federal employees paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025: GAO

    The federal workforce shrunk by roughly 216,000 workers in 2025, according to federal data.

    ABC NewsABC News
  5. 15 September
  6. First seen15 Sept, 21:21

    Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort

    As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.

    The New York TimesThe New York Times•Eileen Sullivan