The Swamp Grew – Even Beneath President Donald Trump

All people from Ronald Reagan (1983) to Nancy Pelosi (2006) to Donald Trump (2016) issued calls to “drain the swamp.”

Nonetheless, in a brand unique oversight deliver by OpenTheBooks.com, Mapping The Swamp, A Behold Of The Administrative Train, we found that the federal agency payrolls persevered to grow unabated.

President Trump became as soon as holding the headcount of the govt. companies roughly flat through at least 2018. Then, the pandemic driven spending introduced on a huge federal hiring spree in FY2020.

Key Information

1. EXPENSIVE BUREAUCRACY: The federal disclosed team costs the American taxpayer $2.3 million per minute, $140 million per hour, and $1.1 billion per day.

In FY2020, the federal govt disclosed 2.8 million workers — including 1.4 million govt agency bureaucrats; 698,547 DOD workers; and 678,537 USPS workers — for an estimated total compensation designate of $292 billion. (Formulation: disclosed cash compensation: $225 billion plus an estimated 30-percent in benefits equals $292 billion).

2. THE SWAMP GETS BIGGER: 1.4 million disclosed workers in the govt. companies (non DOD and USPS) rose to a most modern-day high (2020) – up 3.7-percent from 1.35 million workers in FY2016. Veterans Affairs with 421,542 workers became as soon as the supreme govt agency, and, since FY2016, headcount grew by 48,928 workers (13-percent). Plight of origin Safety with 210,253 workers, grew by 26,290 workers (14.3-percent).

3. HIGHLY COMPENSATED BUREAUCRATS: 532,784 workers made $100,000+ in the 122 govt companies (non DOD and USPS) — from 406,960 workers in FY2016 (up 31-percent).

Furthermore, 37,631 workers made $200,000+ (up 52-percent) and 7,692 workers earned $300,000+ (up 144-percent). Dr. Anthony Fauci became as soon as the most highly compensated federal employee — across all companies — for the second twelve months and earned $434,312.

4. A NEW MINIMUM WAGE: The in model pay became as soon as $100,000+ in 100 of 122 govt companies (non DOD and USPS) and departments. 26,853 federal workers out-earned every direct governor ($225,000 | Original York).

5. PAID TO STAY HOME: 44-days of paid-day off (PTO) on average for bureaucrats employed in the govt. companies (non DOD and USPS) – 11 holidays, 13 unwell days, and 20 hunch days. The estimated taxpayer subsidy of this profit is $22 billion yearly.

6. THE $15 MILLION MAN: The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a quasi-public federal agency, paid their CEO Jeffry Lyash $15.5 million in wage, retirement and other benefits over a two-twelve months length, FY2019-FY2020. The TVA is a federal entity, but doesn’t in the meanwhile obtain taxpayer funding.

7. VA EMPLOYMENT FARM: Since 2012, Veterans Affairs added 106,037 unique positions to payroll, but only 6,674 had been doctors (Scientific Officers). Simplest one in every sixteen unique positions had been doctors.

8. BLOATED WHITE HOUSE PAYROLL: The Biden White Residence is the most costly in historical previous with over 560 workers and $50 million annual payroll expense. By comparison, President Trump employed 377 staffers with an inflation adjusted $40 million payroll in his first twelve months (2017).

9. ARMED BUREAUCRATS: Federal workers (non-DOD) with firearm authority (200,000+) now exceeds the sequence of U.S. Marines (186,000). Employees in 103 companies with firearm authority encompass 69,000 at Department of Justice; 63,000 at Plight of origin Safety; and even 4,547 cops at Veterans Affairs and a pair of,159 particular brokers at the Interior Revenue Service.

10. TRANSPARENCY PROBLEMS: 259,000 names had been redacted accounting for an estimated $25 billion in cash compensation all the draw in which throughout the govt. agency payroll (non DOD and USPS). The sequence of redactions grew from 3,500 in FY2016. Department of Protection: only disclosed the 698,547 civilian workers with wage, title and department, but redacted all names. The U.S. Post Plight of job disclosed 678,537 workers, but redacted all bonuses.

To boot, one other $225 billion in estimated compensation stays hidden and no longer topic to the oversight of this deliver: an estimated $100 billion in non-disclosed salaries of the 1,379,800 million active protection force people; and one other $125 billion in undisclosed pension-retirement annuity payouts.

Additional studying

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