HUD workforce continues to decline after DOGE
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HUD workforce continues to decline after DOGE

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 15, 20265 min
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New details on workforce declines at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Government Accountability Office says HUD lost 29% of its workforce in 2025. A new report finds a majority of the departing employees left through DOGE’s deferred resignation program. In 2025, HUD hired roughly 69% fewer employees than the previous year. Since the start of this year, HUD has added only 120 employees to the workforce. HUD has not responded to GAO’s request for information about the office closures and workforce numbers the report identified. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at h...

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This is a Federal News Network podcast. Coming up today on the Federal Newscast, the HUD workforce continues to decline after Doge. FedRAMP approved 92 new cloud services in fiscal 2026. And the Department of Veterans Affairs looks to spend $2.7 billion to improve its

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New details on workforce declines at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The government accountability office says HUD lost 29 percent of its workforce in 2025. A new report finds a majority of the departing employees left through Doge's deferred resignation program.

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