Tiny Red HandsBack

Paying to Fire and Rehire — Outcome

Date
2025-04-28
Entry type
audit-outcome
Current status
Outcome

Entities and roles

Money trail

  1. public costModeled fiscal-2025 cost of DOGE workforce disruptionroughly $135 billion
    Loss or cost borne by
    U.S. taxpayers
    estimated · 2025-04-28 · projected · central scenarioPopulation Federal agencies implementing workforce reductions; Federal employees separated, placed on leave, or later rehired; U.S. taxpayersPeriod 2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30Projection horizon 2025-09-30Basis Partnership for Public Service started from approximately $270 billion in annual federal workforce compensation and modeled paid leave, lost productivity, and firing-and-rehiring costs; CBS reported the model and components.Limits Not a government audit or booked outlay total. The public article does not expose a reproducible component table, and incomplete documentation and behavioral assumptions make the estimate high-uncertainty.Open cited evidence

Claims and evidence

  1. factreported

    CBS reported the Partnership for Public Service's rough estimate that DOGE-related paid leave, lost productivity, and firing and rehiring would cost about $135 billion in fiscal 2025.