You can never convince me that this many people are necessary for these agencies and some of these agencies should not exist.

The US Office of Personnel Management showed eight cabinet-level agencies, which are at the center of the executive branch and have heads that report directly to the president, had more than 100,000 civilian employees as of March.

 

Almost half a million people were employed in the Department of Veterans Affairs, while the Department of Education had just over 4,000. The Treasury Department had more than 100,000 employees as of March. The overwhelming majority of those — about 94,000 — were employed in the Internal Revenue Service.

 

Most departments had six-figure average salaries, with the Department of Education and the Department of Energy having the highest averages.

 

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“The point is not to be cruel or to have people not be able to pay their mortgage or anything,” Musk said during his October remarks, adding, “We just have too many people in the government sector, and they could be more productive elsewhere.”