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Federal employees were paid nearly $7 billion not to work under DOGE effort: GAO

Federal employees were paid nearly $7 billion not to work under DOGE effort: GAO
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The study shows remarkable jumps in every metric used to assess paid leave. Salary costs attributable to paid leave jumped sixfold between 2023 and 2025.

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