{"id":71440,"date":"2026-04-11T06:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/federal-workers-struggle-to-find-roles-a-year-after-trump-cuts-ive-applied-to-over-250-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:57:43","slug":"federal-workers-struggle-to-find-roles-a-year-after-trump-cuts-ive-applied-to-over-250-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/federal-workers-struggle-to-find-roles-a-year-after-trump-cuts-ive-applied-to-over-250-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal workers struggle to find roles a year after Trump cuts: \u2018I\u2019ve applied to over 250 jobs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current and former government employees say they\u2019re facing a tough job market over a year on from sweeping cuts<\/p>\n<p>Maggie was faced with a tough choice in February 2025: quit her job at the US office of personnel management or be unceremoniously fired.<\/p>\n<p>Though she was a few months pregnant at the time, Maggie was offered one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/policy-data-oversight\/workforce-restructuring\/voluntary-separation-incentive-payments\/\">buyouts<\/a> that were offered to tens of thousands of federal government employees by the office of personnel management.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/11\/federal-government-workers-trump-cuts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current and former government employees say they\u2019re facing a tough job market over a year on from sweeping cuts Maggie was faced with a tough choice in February 2025: quit her job at the US office of personnel management or be unceremoniously fired. Though she was a few months pregnant at the time, Maggie was &#8230; <a title=\"Federal workers struggle to find roles a year after Trump cuts: \u2018I\u2019ve applied to over 250 jobs\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/federal-workers-struggle-to-find-roles-a-year-after-trump-cuts-ive-applied-to-over-250-jobs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal workers struggle to find roles a year after Trump cuts: \u2018I\u2019ve applied to over 250 jobs\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}