Federal employees paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025: GAO
2 sources·Updated September 16, 2026
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- Guardian World·9h agoUS government paid federal employees $9.5bn not to work amid Doge cuts – report
GAO report shows how use paid administrative leave rose by 435% from 2023 to 2025 and incurred a sixfold cost The US government paid federal workers $9.5bn not to work in 2025 as part of the Trump administration’s attempts to shrink the federal workforce. As part of efforts by…
Read at Guardian World → - ABC News Top·10h agoFederal employees paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025: GAO
The federal workforce shrunk by roughly 216,000 workers in 2025, according to federal data.
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