President Joe Biden is ending his term with a record number of government workers on taxpayer-funded payrolls, new jobs data reveals.
The number of state, federal and local government employees has risen to new highs during Biden’s presidency, totaling about 23.5 million as of December, according to Federal Reserve Economic Data updated with the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs data released Friday. Under the Biden-Harris administration, the U.S. first broke the record of total government jobs in February 2024, despite overall unemployment ticking up the same month.
“The percentage of the total workforce that is employed by the government has been steadily increasing for two and a half years, including in the December [BLS] report,” Richard Stern, a federal budget expert at The Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This indicates that once…
