Despite concerns about sequestration by unions and boasts about belt-tightening from politicians, the civil service workforce of most federal agencies has grown over the last several years.
And since the across-the-board cuts known as sequestration went into effect early last year, the permanent federal workforce grew by 34,000, more than any year in recent memory.
Fourteen of 18 cabinet-level agencies had more permanent employees at the end of 2013 than they did at the end of 2009, according to Office of Personnel Management data, with overall growth of 10 percent over the four years.
The Department of Homeland Security has 27,000 more employees, Health and Human Services has 7,000 more, the Social Security Administration 4,000 more and Commerce 2,000 more.
If there was pressure to keep labor costs down, many obscure agencies also flew under the radar.
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And each and every of these fed govt agencies have LE divisions including the Dept of Education!
ReplyDeleteI hear a lot of talk of local LE's becoming "militarized."
What really needs to be the focus are the fed govt agencies that are becoming militarized.
If we get rid of the militarization within the agencies, just 10% of the incompetence, 10% of the Affirmative Action Unqualified, and 10% of the laziness, we could balance the budget!
ReplyDeleteOK - those numbers are a SWAG - but a start nonetheless....