Why is Trump cutting federal jobs? Here’s what it means in New Jersey
From Veterans Affairs to the CDC: Trump, Musk fire federal workers
President Donald Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk cut thousands of probationary positions after only 3.3% of federal workers took Trump’s buyout offer.
President Donald Trump and his administration are overhauling federal agencies amid mass firings of federal workers in effort to slash government spending.
Nearly 80,000 federal workers have taken Trump’s buyout offer, promising eight months of pay and benefits through September in exchange for their immediate resignation, but the number pales in comparison to the three million employees on the government payroll.
The Trump administration signaled furloughs and layoffs are likely if not enough federal employees agree to the buyouts.
A wave of over 10,000 workers were fired last week, many of which targeted employees in their probationary period. According to the most recently publicly available data from the Office of Personnel Management, about 220,000 federal workers of the total federal government workforce had less than one year of experience as of March 2024.
The job cuts have been across all departments, such as from the Department of Education and Small Business Administration to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Forest Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the agency that oversees the nation’s fleet of nuclear weapons. All in the form of downsizing or outright elimination.
New Jersey will not be spared. Here is what it could mean for the Garden State.
How many federal workers are in New Jersey?
The Trump administration hasn’t yet publicly broken down how many federal workers in each state have taken the buyout, but New Jersey has 22,504 federal workers.
The voluntary buyout plan is meant to shrink the federal workforce, but in New Jersey, the impact could have a ripple effect.
The FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic County is a key research and testing center for air traffic control technology. Federal employees there are involved in designing and testing flight safety systems. Staffing losses could slow down air travel projects.
The state also has a heavy federal presence in defense. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst relies on civilian workers for a variety of military support services. And Picatinny Arsenal employs a few hundred civilian employees working on weapons development.
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