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What do you mean by “same size”? Is it the same number of employees? Same number of divisions?
I was strictly speaking of the number of civilian federal employees. Yes that number was 3 million as of December 2024. It was roughly 2.8 million in 1970.
This also includes a RIF of around 450k people in the 1990s, and I'm not sure about what in the 1980s as I recall reading Reagan was very anti-fed. As a proportion of the population, the amount of people working for the country as civil servants has shrunk.
Thank you for clarifying