{"id":257260,"date":"2026-04-24T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=257260"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:15:18","slug":"us-justice-department-axes-thousands-of-law-enforcement-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/257260\/","title":{"rendered":"US justice department axes thousands of law enforcement jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Trump administration has cut more than 4,000 employees from some of the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The records, from the US Justice Department’s management unit, show that the total number of employees at the FBI has dropped more than 7% since the government’s ‌2024 fiscal year, a loss of about 2,600 people. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s staff has dropped by about 6%, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lost about 14% of its workers.<\/p>\n

Other parts of the Justice Department shrank even more rapidly. Its National Security Division, which handles intelligence and terrorism matters, lost nearly 38% of its staff, the department’s records show.<\/p>\n

Other records, including detailed information about ​people who left government jobs, show an increasing pace of departures from law-enforcement agencies after Trump began his second term in January 2025.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration has cut more than 4,000 employees from some of the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies, Reuters writes. The records, from the US Justice Department’s management unit, show that the total number of employees at the FBI has dropped more than 7% since the government’s ‌2024 fiscal year, a loss of about 2,600 people. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":257151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257261,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257260\/revisions\/257261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}