The federal workforce will be a little smaller after the government shutdown ends

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Laying off government employees during a phony shutdown is a messy way to reduce the size of government.
70% : Some will complain that the federal layoffs, like the shutdown, cause real inconvenience to those dependent on government.
60% : Too many of them get up to mischief by exercising the power of the government to interfere in people's lives and to enforce intrusive rules and laws.
57% : The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was supposed to accomplish that goal, but the shutdown offers another opportunity.
49% : Just see my comment above about the public health establishment and the pandemic.
48% : "Around 4,200 employees were laid off in total on Friday," reports Eric Katz of Government Executive.
47% : But we'll take smaller government however we can get it.
46% : The Department of Education, which President Trump proposes to totally eliminate, also experienced layoffs (466 or nearly 20 percent of its remaining workforce), as did the Environmental Protection Agency, Homeland Security, and Housing and Urban Development.
39% : In the game of chicken between Republicans and Democrats over just how much the government should overspend and on what, the losers so far appear to be some of the almost 3 million Americans who thought federal employment would be a comfortable way to collect a paycheck. Setting thousands of former government workers loose to seek jobs elsewhere -- preferably not involving money forcibly extracted from taxpayers -- is a step in the right direction.
38% : National parks and museums are closed to inconvenience the public into believing something big is happening even as taxes keep getting collected and government enforcers continue twisting arms to make sure people comply with laws and rules that never should have been imposed.

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