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About 122,000 employees also joined the federal workforce in the space between January 2025 to January 2026
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Though DOGE was dissolved as a centralized entity in late 2025, federal workers told Fortune DOGE personnel are still active in individual agencies, and the mass firings and resignations have disrupted day-to-day workflow and in some cases burdened remaining employees with greater workloads.
Key facts
- Last July, Trump signed the GENIUS Act, a bill (which stands for Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. As of March 2025, $1.8 billion of Trump’s net worth came from crypto-related
- About 122,000 employees also joined the federal workforce in the space between January 2025 to January 2026, but it was a 55% decrease from the number of new hires in 2024, resulting in a net
- Tech Force, an initiative hiring 1,000 engineers and specialists meant to improve AI infrastructure in the government
- Among Kupor’s concerns with the government workforce is its older skew, with half of workers within 10 years of retirement age, he noted
Summary
President Donald Trump’s second-term appointments set a record for the wealthiest presidential administration in modern history, an early indication Trump had no problem welcoming business magnates into his inner political circle. With Trump himself a real estate developer with deep ties to cryptocurrencies, it’s perhaps not a surprise that among the priorities for building the government workforce would be to create more opportunities for private sector workers, as well as to create a more permeable barrier between the two sectors. “One of the things that I’m hoping to do a better job on is getting people from the private sector—who’ve been in the private sector their whole career—who also spend a couple years in government at some point in their career, and learn something,” Kupor told Fortune. Kupor has helped create several initiatives to welcome private sector workers into the government.