Love this trend. And Trump is moving bureaucrats out of DC. So I expect even more government employees to refuse assignments away from DC and retire early.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
"This data revealed that there were 322,049 total separations of federal employees between Jan. 20, 2025 and Nov. 2025, providing a more complete accounting of departures from the federal workforce including departures from quits, standard retirements and expired appointments."
"This campaign to weaken the federal civil service has targeted the very people who keep our government running and provide essential services that we all rely on every day..... roughly 2.3 million employees make up the civilian workforce"
ourpublicservice.org/federal-harms-track...-to-your-government/
Wanting to see actual numbers I came across the numbers from the above reference. Reading further,
I found the second quote.
In my small part of the U.S., I haven't found anyone who is inconvenienced. One of my friends commented "Is an obese person weakened when they lose 15% of their body weight?"