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A Nation at Work No More: The Legal, Historical, and Political Reverberations of the 2025 United States Federal Mass Layoffs
The first quarter of 2025 introduced the United States to a federal employment crisis not seen in nearly a century. A sweeping wave of Federal mass layoffs across multiple federal agencies resulted in the dismissal of over 150,000 federal employees. Triggered ostensibly by a complex cocktail of political gridlock, fiscal prioritization, and administrative realignment, the 2025 federal mass layoffs have come to symbolize a new era of ideological confrontation over the size, purpose, and structure of the federal government.
Trump Budget Cuts Trigger Biggest Wave of Federal Layoffs in a Decade
In 2025, the United States government embarked on one of the most significant and controversial bureaucratic transformations in modern history. Amid claims of restoring efficiency, eliminating redundancy, and slashing public expenditures, the Trump administration, entering its second term, initiated sweeping federal workforce layoffs. Over 275,000 federal civil service positions were reduced—a staggering 12% of the civilian federal workforce. The measures affected a broad spectrum of agencies, from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Education to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). At the heart of this shift was the formation of a new executive agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), empowered with exceptional authority to facilitate the downsizing initiative.