The Trump administration has seen a mass exodus of more than 10,000 government lawyers, with roughly one in five attorneys who worked in the federal workforce at the end of 2024 no longer working for the administration by March 2026, a new analysis from the New York Times found.
Across multiple departments, President Donald Trump pushed lawyers out of government work as he sought to reduce the number of federal employees, get rid of entire agencies and pressure attorneys to swiftly implement his agenda regardless of constitutionality.
