Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort

Source: www.nytimes.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center · Published: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:47:02 GMT

As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.

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