The federal workforce shrank by more than 10% in Year One of Donald Trump’s new term in the White House.

An analysis by the Pew Research Center of new government data found that the federal workforce fell by 10.3% in 2025 — an impressive net reduction of 238,000 employees — in the Trump war on an oversized and inefficient bureaucracy.

The decline came as more than 348,000 federal employees quit, retired, were laid off, or otherwise left government service last year, an 80.8% increase from 2024.

At the same time, only about 116,900 people were hired — a 55.6% drop from the previous year.

The swamp is receding.