This headline makes our day:

Office of Personnel Management director Scott Kupor estimates that 300,000 federal employees will be gone by the end of the year, a 12% reduction in force.

This is one of the largest reductions in the federal bureaucracy since the end of World War 2, not counting the years after a census count. About 80% of this reduction in force is due to voluntary early retirement buyouts – which were probably overly-generous. About 60,000 federal employees were fired.

At the start of the year, there were roughly 2.4 million civilian federal employees, and the goal is to get that number well below 2 million by the end of the Trump presidency.