EPA’s workforce is already shrinking while the Trump administration plans to slash even more into the agency’s staffing levels.
Records EPA delivered to Capitol Hill this month shed more light on President Donald Trump’s blueprint to chop down payroll within the agency. EPA’s latest workforce report shows several of its national programs now have more staff than the administration’s personnel caps for the first time since Trump returned to office, which could provide further ammunition for more cuts at the agency.
The agency’s programs for air, water, chemicals and solid waste as well as the administrator’s office are some of the places where actual full-time equivalents, or FTEs, outnumber the target figures proposed by Trump in the fiscal 2025 third quarter, according to the report obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News under the Freedom of Information Act.
FTEs are the hours a full-time employee works each year, so roughly 2,080 work hours.
