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Clinton initiative cut over 377K federal jobs in the 1990s. It's not comparable to Trump's effort

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President Bill Clinton reduced the federal government's workforce by more than 377,000 employees during his presidency.

In 1994 , Clinton signed a bill that offered federal workers buyouts of up to $25,000 in an effort to reduce the workforce by 272,000 .

But the buyouts offered by Clinton 's NPR and Trump and Musk's Department of Government Efficiency are not the same.

Judge Halts Trump's Government Worker Buyout Plan. 7 Feb. 2025 , https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2q1g3evzqo. "Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plan Offering Incentives for Federal Workers to Resign ." AP News , 6 Feb. 25 , " Reinventing Government -- Two Decades Later ." Government Executive , 26 Apr. 2013 , "What-reinvention-wrought/62836/. Remarks by President Clinton Announcing the Initiative to Streamline Government..

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