Donald Trump Claims He Eliminated Over 270,000 Federal Jobs Since Starting Second Term

Donald Trump Claims He Eliminated Over 270,000 Federal Jobs Since Starting Second Term

Donald Trump – Trump second term – federal jobs cut – Donald Trump, who has touted himself as a “president for the workers” who “protects the middle class,” has eliminated hundreds of thousands of federal jobs.

In a Dec. 26 Truth Social post, Trump, 79, shared a screenshot of an X post from the White House’s Rapid Response account, highlighting how job positions within the U.S. government are at the lowest level since 2014, with 271,000 roles eliminated.

“Promises made, promises kept,” the White House Rapid Response account, which supports Trump’s “America First agenda and holding the Fake News accountable,” said.

In his Truth Social post, Trump celebrated the decrease in jobs, writing, “Big news for the USA!”

Trump was elected to office in November 2024, winning the election against Kamala Harris. He previously served as president from 2017 to 2021, beating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, but when seeking reelection in 2020, Trump lost to Joe Biden.

After Trump won the 2024 election, he brought Elon Musk into the Oval Office to serve as co-lead of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which aimed to make major cuts to areas of the government that Trump’s administration deemed unnecessary.

Trump — who previously said that the DOGE’s goal was to form “a smaller government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy” — signed an executive order that the organization would last through July 2026. But, in November, Scott Kupor, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director, said that the DOGE “doesn’t exist” and is no longer a “centralized entity,” per a report from Reuters.

Before that, Musk had announced he was departing his government role with the DOGE in May, right after the tech CEO criticized Trump’s budget legislation agenda.

According to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in the United States as of November is 4.6%, with 7.8 million people unemployed. (A year prior, the jobless rate was 4.2% and the number of unemployed people was 7.1 million.)

While the organization said employment rose in healthcare and construction roles in November, federal government workers continued to lose jobs.

The latest YouGov/Economist poll, meanwhile, researched Trump’s approval rating among Americans and found that only 39% approve of Trump’s handling of the presidency, 57% disapprove and 4% were unsure.

The findings, from 1,592 U.S. citizens of different ages, sexes, races and incomes, were collected between Dec. 20 and Dec. 22.

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