The Office of Personnel Management\u2019s recent release of raw FedScope data files for March 2025, the first significant update in months, offers early signals about federal workforce trends under the Trump administration, but also raises serious transparency concerns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This release was hotly anticipated by the Partnership and other stakeholders, both for its potential to show how the workforce is changing under the Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s or DOGE\u2019s chaotic restructuring actions, and as a test of how the administration intends to support FedScope, especially after DOGE dismantled the unit<\/a> responsible for managing this critical HR database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Between September 2024 and March 2025, the federal civilian workforce shrank by 1.0%, dropping from 2,313,216 to 2,289,472 employees. Among the cabinet departments, the largest workforce retractions came at the Departments of the Interior (-8.1%), Agriculture (-7.8%) and Education (-3.7%), a combined loss of more than 13,000 employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\nEarly signs of workforce changes\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n