Good point, but let’s look at real numbers. Full-time Federal civilian employees from 1970 to 2023. From 1.97M in 1974 to 2.3M in 2023. That’s a 18% increase.
Still a small increase compared to population and budget growth. Again, show me a private sector company that can increase in size like that with a much smaller increase in employees.
Interestingly, federal civilian employment declined significantly under Clinton (1993-2000) when Gore was in charge of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government. Those crazy liberals reduced the size of civilian government! Went from 2.1M in 1993 to 1.8M in 2001, a 14% reduction.
That reduction ended with Bush Jr where we see an increase in the number of federal employees throughout his term (2001-2008). This ends during the Obama administration (2008-2015) when the number of civilian employees returns to 1994 levels even with the addition Obamacare. Those crazy liberals did it again!
trump got elected in 2018. Look at the direction of the civilian government hiring curve during that administration.