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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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A Leaner Federal Workforce Is a Win for Taxpayers
By David Harsanyi
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One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump's second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs. The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees. Not since President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society vastly expanded the scope of the national government has the federal workforce been at this level. It's not merely that the feds have shed superfluous jobs – there are still over 4 million contract workers, after all. It's that the White House has been…
 
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