The Guardian USLean left
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2026-09-18 14:17
Federal employees paid nearly $7B not to work under DOGE effort
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- The Guardian USLean left
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.
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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.
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The study shows remarkable jumps in every metric used to assess paid leave. Salary costs attributable to paid leave jumped sixfold between 2023 and 2025.
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Trump admin. paid federal employees nearly $7B not to work
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US government paid federal employees $9.5bn not to work amid Doge cuts – report
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Federal employees paid nearly $7B not to work under DOGE effort
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