Federal jobs down 328,000 since January 2025; PEPI counts 3 of 5 actions aimed at them carried out (September 2026)
BLS counted 2,682,000 federal employees in September 2026, 328,000 (10.9%) fewer than in January 2025. PEPI tracks 5 presidential actions aimed at government workers; 3 were carried out in full. Since the newest, on June 10, 2026, the count is down 3,000. Civic Forecast calculation from BLS series CES9091000001 and PEPI's ledger of actions aimed at government workers; timing, not cause.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.