Various Democrats have been critical of the Trump administration’s ongoing mass government layoffs, but they have remained largely unscathed by job cuts compared to the private sector over the past few years. It seems he is ignoring the fact.
Government workers have faced lower layoff rates in recent years, while the number of private sector workers in the US has increased in recent years. 2024, layoffs and discharges rate All jobs in non-farm pay jobs in the US ranged from 1% to 1.1%, but government layoffs and discharges rate According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which was collected by Trade Economics, it ranged from 0.3% to 0.4%.
US employers reported 761,358 job cuts in 2024 – the highest since 2020. According to In January’s report from Christmas, Gray, a US-based discontinued company.
“The biggest thing can’t stress this enough – the private sector is facing a final line,” Rachel Greszler, a senior researcher at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. . “They need to pay their employees, create those salaries, and hopefully grow the company, and at least provide enough income to keep it. The federal government is virtually the final line At the end of the day, they can go to US taxpayers and take more money or inflate the value of the US dollar.”
In January, US employers announced a cut in employment by 49,759 people. According to Challenger, Gray, on February reports from Christmas. In comparison, in January 2021, US employers had planned employment cuts of 79,552, of which only 19 were government jobs and abolished companies. It has been reported.
“It was a very low layoff rate for the federal government,” Gresler told DCNF. “The last four years have been even lower than usual, compared to state and local governments. Their layoff rates are about 50% higher than the federal government.”
Employing federal workers is much more expensive than hiring private workers. On average, benefits costs for all education-level workers were 43% higher in 2022 for federal private employees than for private sector employees with certain similar characteristics. According to To the Congressional Budget Office. (Related: “It’s a lot of scam”: Karoline Leavitt sniffs attempts to make her trip over NBC News Reporter’s Doge Cuts)
Relatedly, federal workers are often paid significantly higher wages than private sector employees. As of February 17th, average The annual salary for federal employees in the US was $106,462; average According to Ziprecruiter, one employee in the private sector paid $63,279 a year.
Some of the private sector industries that have been affected by recent layoffs include Media, retail, technology.
“I think it was very difficult to fire, dismiss or simply discipline a federal employee,” Gresler explained to DCNF. “That’s certainly true today, and perhaps even more so, as the Biden administration was particularly sympathetic to the unions. But they’re also expanding the number of federal employees, so before that If you had federal employees who weren’t doing their jobs and might be worthy of fire, you can now hire more workers to do the job. Initially you were hired to do them. It’s done by people.”
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Trump administration Established On January 20th, Government Efficiency (DOGE) reduced fraud and wasted spending across the federal government. Doge, led by Elon Musk, has previously implemented massive layoffs at several government agencies to reduce unnecessary costs.
Many Americans are largely on the cut, despite some Democrats and federal workers trying to resist the drastic government layoffs of the Doji and Trump administration. investigation 49% of Americans approved Doge’s efforts, 44% disapproved and 7% found to be undecided.
Several fired federal workers took them to corporate media to lament the government’s layoffs. Chelsea Milburn, who was fired from the Department of Education, told CNN on February 19 that the layoffs were “inhuman.”
Additionally, President Donald Trump signed Presidential Order On February 11th, doge was granted additional oversight of government employee employment. Doge has saved American taxpayers an estimated $55 billion so far. According to on that website.
Many Republican lawmakers support Doge’s cost-cutting efforts. Still, some Democrats have tried to stop the Doge push to reduce the government’s workforce in lawsuits over data access and privacy law.
“I think there’s a lack of accountability [in the federal government]Gresler told DCNF. “Most private sector employees are not profitable if their employees are not making a profit or if they have performance issues with the federal government. “As taxpayers, we have to pay for goods and services. Does it actually produce the value of?” No one is responsible for it. ”
When it appeared on Fox News on February 18th, Musk said Doge must be “doing the right thing” as he debates the immeasurable pushback that Doge faces from Democrats about government cuts. I stated.
“Why are they reacting this way?” Musk asked. “I think we have to go beyond our targets and do the right thing. I don’t think they’ll complain that much if we’re not doing something useful.”
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