Power Line's new guy Bill Glahn posts the following quote from the Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment report.
In January, federal government employment continued to decline (-34,000) as some federal employees who accepted a deferred resignation offer in 2025 came off federal payrolls. Since reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 327,000, or 10.9 percent.
10.9% is roughly one ninth of the federal workforce, that's not trivial. Glahn goes on to note this.
Payroll jobs were up for January (+130,000), overall, even as government employment (all levels) fell (-42,000 last month).
All the while the national unemployment rate is declining. This is good news the GOP needs, looking toward November's midterm election.
Later .... This posted by Instapundit, making the same point graphically:
