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- U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration cut the federal civil service by over 300,000 workers.
- Forty-one percent of those separations came from the Deferred Resignation Program.
- Only about 15% of Deferred Resignation Program separations were replaced, according to OPM Director Scott Kupor.
- Backfilled hires entered roughly 1.4 General Schedule grades lower.
- IRS policy lacks a deadline while TIGTA reports 1,308 IT assets not returned, 594 missing by April 2026, worth over $270,000.
