Agencies Spent Nearly $10 Billion for Feds Not to Work in 2025

Defense One – The federal government spent nearly $10 billion placing more than 100,000 federal workers on paid administrative leave for extended periods last year, a sixfold increase from two years prior, driven largely by the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program aimed at encouraging feds to quit public service.

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