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154,000
“The government is paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work as part of the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program,” the Washington Post reports. “The number, which has not been previously reported, accounts for workers at dozens of agencies who took offers from the government as of June to get paid through Sept. 30 — the end of the fiscal year — or the end of 2025 and then voluntarily leave government, significantly reducing the size of several major agencies.”
50%
A new Times/YouGov poll finds few Americans say they are better off under President Trump and most think the economy is getting worse. “Trump pledged to bring inflation down immediately and ‘make America wealthy again’ but only 13 percent of survey respondents said they were feeling any financial benefit. Some 50 percent thought the economy was worsening and only 24 percent that it was improving.”
