Lost in all the hullabaloo about the mean people at DOGE who are cutting the bloated federal workforce, is how much this fatted cow has grown.  As we showed in HOTLINEs past, government hiring under Biden far outpaced private hiring. The federal workforce is now larger than the number of workers in construction, manufacturing, mining, and logging – combined.

Not all federal workers are doing jobs that are redundant, unnecessary, obsolete or wasteful… but too many are.

The problem is we can’t just downsize the federal bureaucracy through attrition – because government employees seldom leave. Their quit rate is less than one-half as high as in the private sector. The old joke is that it takes a blowtorch to get a federal worker to leave voluntarily.