Anyone Surprised?
Not Me….
The Buzzsaw Musk experiment has resulted in new hires to replace people….
Work put aside waiting for those hires who have to learn the ropes ….
Over 19,500 technology, data and telecommunications employees left their jobs with the federal government last year after President Donald Trump took office and began a crusade to shrink the government’s workforce, according to newly released government data.
Now, it appears that the administration is trying to make up for the losses.
All six departments and agencies with the biggest losses of IT management employees — the departments of Defense, Treasury, Agriculture, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, as well as the General Services Administration — currently have IT jobs listed on the government’s hiring website, USAJobs.
The Trump administration is also looking to hire 1,000 new early-career technologists through its new U.S. Tech Force, which it launched late last year.
“Anything even tangentially related to tech — there’s a spot for you,” the administration’s chief information officer, Greg Barbaccia, recently toldpotential applicants.
In total, 352,285 federal employees left their posts between Jan. 20 and Dec. 31, 2025, according to data released by the Office of Personnel Management on Wednesday.
Among the government’s IT management, computer science, computer engineering, data science and telecommunications jobs, 19,519 employees left the government between Jan. 20 and Dec. 31, 2025, representing about 5.5% of all those that departed last year. With limited hiring, the net loss of tech employees was 17,228.
Asked by Nextgov/FCW during a January interview if it was a mistake for so many tech employees to leave the government, Barbaccia said, “there was quite a bit of disruption, obviously.”
Note…
With Trump’s chaos?
Would someone actually look at Federal employment during his time in office as ‘secure’?
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