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Visualizing Trump’s Federal Layoffs
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Key Takeaways
- The Trump administration has slashed the federal workforce, with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) losing about 10,000 workers, the highest number overall.
- Roughly 5,400 people have been fired at the Defense Department, equal to 0.8% of employees, resulting in the second-largest cuts by headcount.
- More recently, the State Department terminated 9% of its staff.
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From firing inspectors-general, to mass layoffs in the Department of Education, the federal workforce is being scaled back. So far, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of 12 of these terminations, while scores of workers are leaving voluntarily.
This graphic shows Trump’s federal layoffs, based on data from CNN.
Ranked: Federal Layoffs by Agency in 2025
In the table below, we show more than 51,000 federal job cuts as of July 14, 2025:
| Agency | Share of Agency Fired | Number of Employees Fired |
|---|---|---|
| US Agency for International Development | 100.0% | 10K |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | 100.0% | 75 |
| Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | 86.4% | 1.5K |
| Agency for Global Media | 84.8% | 1.4K |
| AmeriCorps | 84.4% | 650 |
| HUD Community Planning and Development | 83.3% | 780 |
| Small Business Administration | 41.5% | 2.7K |
| Education | 33.3% | 1.4K |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | 18.6% | 2.4K |
| Food and Drug Administration | 16.7% | 5.3K |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 12.7% | 1.6K |
| Geological Survey | 10.0% | 1K |
| State | 9.3% | 1.4K |
| Forest Service | 8.8% | 3.5K |
| General Services Administration | 8.6% | 1.6K |
| Internal Revenue Service | 7.4% | 7.3K |
| Energy | 5.8% | 1K |
| National Institutes of Health | 5.7% | 1.2K |
| Central Intelligence Agency | 5.5% | 1.2K |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | 5.4% | 675 |
| Bureau of the Fiscal Service | 5.1% | 169 |
| Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | 4.6% | at least 300 |
| National Park Service | 4.6% | 1K |
| Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | 3.8% | more than 130 |
| Bureau of Engraving and Printing | 2.5% | 48 |
| Science and Technology Directorate | 2.3% | 10 |
| Office of the Comptroller of the Currency | 2.0% | 73 |
| Labor | 1.2% | 170 |
| Federal Aviation Administration | 0.9% | 400 |
| Defense | 0.8% | 5.4K |
| Federal Emergency Management Agency | 0.8% | over 200 |
| Mint | 0.5% | 8 |
| Transportation Security Administration | 0.4% | 243 |
| Citizenship and Immigration Services | 0.2% | under 50 |
So far, 34 agencies or sub-agencies have made job cuts either through layoffs or notices of termination.
As a result, Washington D.C. is home to the highest number of layoffs in the country in 2025, with six agencies seeing at least 80% of their workforce eliminated. Most notably, USAID’s closure resulted in about 10,000 layoffs, with 83% of its programs being shut down.
Over the past 20 years, the agency has prevented 91 million deaths in emerging and developing economies through humanitarian, health care, and nutrition funding initiatives.
Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration cut about 42% of its workforce, equal to approximately 2,700 employees. Even more staggeringly, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) cut 86.4% of its staff. The CFPB regulates financial markets, including banks, credit card companies and mortgage lenders.
For perspective, the federal headcount stood at about three million employees in early 2025, with 50% working in the sector for more than 10 years. Overall, the U.S. ranks 11th out of 80 countries by share of government workers per capita, based on 2023 figures.
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