9/24/2026
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Federal employees were paid nearly $7B not to work under DOGE effort: GAO

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Federal employees were paid nearly $7B not to work under DOGE effort: GAO
The Trump administration paid outgoing employees an estimated nearly $7 billion to not work as it encouraged them to leave the federal service, a government watchdog found in a Tuesday report. Federal workers’ use of paid leave increased 435 percent under the first two years of the Trump administration, a dynamic the Government Accountability Office…
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