{"id":23085,"date":"2026-09-18T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23085"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:38:09","slug":"in-2025-due-to-doge-federal-employees-were-paid-9-5-billion-to-not-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23085","title":{"rendered":"In 2025, due to DOGE, federal employees were paid $9.5 billion to not work."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously, the IRS delivered a public report telling us how many due taxes went unpaid. Under the Trump administration, the IRS is now no longer delivering this report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal agencies are understaffed thanks to Trump and DOGE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025, due to DOGE, federal employees were paid $9.5 billion to not work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2\/2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025, due to DOGE, federal employees were paid $9.5 billion to not work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canada\u2019s Break With Trump Just Got MUCH Bigger | Receipts Live\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UKWXRuDKbm4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, the IRS delivered a public report telling us how many due taxes went unpaid. Under the Trump administration, the IRS is now no longer delivering this report. <\/p>\n<p>Federal agencies are understaffed thanks to Trump and DOGE. <\/p>\n<p>In 2025, due to DOGE, federal employees were paid $9.5 billion to not work. <\/p>\n<p>2\/2<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, due to DOGE, federal employees were paid $9.5 billion to not work. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UKWXRuDKbm4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[617,951,2131,221,1598,1303,2284,141,170],"class_list":["post-23085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bureaucracy","tag-corruption","tag-doge","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-irs","tag-tax-cheat","tag-taxes","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23086,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23085\/revisions\/23086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}