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Federal government to drop 300,000 workers this year

(The Center Square) — The federal government is on pace to eliminate about 300,000 workers this year.

Office of Personnel Management director Scott Kupor said 80% of those employees would leave voluntarily and 20% would be fired. Kupor provided the figures to Reuters on Thursday. That's a 12.5% reduction in the federal workforce since January.

The U.S. government employs about 2.4 million federal wo…

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