2026-09-16T13:10:35.543Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：塔米·卢比
更新时间：2026年9月16日，美国东部时间上午9:59
发布时间：2026年9月16日，美国东部时间上午9:10
联邦政府去年大幅增加了带薪行政假的使用。
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根据国会监督机构的最新估算，特朗普政府去年为联邦雇员的带薪行政假支出了95亿美元，这是其精简政府、为纳税人省钱计划的一部分。
美国政府问责局在一份报告中称，与2023年相比，带薪休假薪资成本增长了六倍。
联邦机构的带薪行政假使用量去年飙升了435%，这主要是由政府效率部（DOGE）推动的备受争议的延期辞职计划所致，该计划由亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克牵头。政府官员曾表示，这项举措将为纳税人节省数十亿美元。
该计划主要在唐纳德·特朗普总统第二任期初期推出，根据该计划，联邦工作人员可以辞职，但可先领取数月带薪休假，以此作为吸引他们报名的激励措施。一些机构提供了多轮该计划，在后续几个月该计划变得更受欢迎，因为特朗普政府对联邦 workforce 的全面改革力度日益明确，越来越多的员工担心自己会失业。
政府问责局估算，约67亿美元用于延期辞职计划，通过该计划有超过14.4万名员工被安排休假。
政府问责局表示，美国人事管理办公室（OPM）并不清楚用于精简联邦 workforce 的带薪行政假的实际成本，并指出由于各机构上报数据存在局限性，其估算数字可能偏高。该局还补充称，由于数据问题，人事管理办公室可能也无法确定长期节约目标是否实现。
人事管理办公室对政府问责局的报告提出异议，称其“未能区分一件事：为减少27万名联邦雇员而支出的95亿美元一次性费用，与此次裁员每年可为纳税人节省的400亿美元之间的区别”。
“这400%的投资回报率对纳税人来说是巨大的收益，”人事管理办公室主任斯科特·库珀在给美国有线电视新闻网的一份声明中说道。
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人事管理办公室的数据显示，略低于14万名工人参与了延期辞职计划，该计划于2025年1月特朗普就职几天后通过一封主题为“岔路口”的电子邮件启动。当时工会曾警告工人不要接受该提议，质疑政府是否会实际支付薪资至9月，并提起诉讼试图叫停该计划，但未成功。
2025年8月，针对民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔发布的一份批评该计划浪费纳税人资金的报告，人事管理办公室为延期辞职计划进行了辩护。
“我们设计延期辞职计划是为了在一个迫切需要人员流动的系统中，提供一种实用、人道且自愿的选择，以加速 workforce 过渡，”库珀当时在一份声明中说道。“员工可以选择提前退休并领取八个月的带薪休假；作为回报，政府每年将节省200多亿美元的成本。”
援引政府问责局的新报告，参议院拨款委员会副主席、民主党参议员帕蒂·默里抨击特朗普政府让如此多经验丰富的联邦雇员休带薪行政假。
“特朗普曾承诺削减浪费，却反而将数十亿美元纳税人的钱付诸一炬，实际上就是付钱让人们不要去做他们热爱的工作——从研究癌症治疗方法到照顾我们的国家公园，还有许许多多其他工作，”她在一份声明中说道，并补充道，“这是可以想象的最昂贵的方式，让政府变得更糟。”
本文已更新补充更多信息。
Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE plan
2026-09-16T13:10:35.543Z / CNN
By Tami Luhby
Updated Sep 16, 2026, 9:59 AM ET
PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2026, 9:10 AM ET
The federal government greatly increased its use of paid administrative leave last year.
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The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog.
The move represented a sixfold increase in paid leave salary costs compared to 2023, the Government Accountability Office said in a report.
Federal agencies’ use of paid administrative leave skyrocketed by 435% last year, driven largely by the controversial deferred resignation program pushed by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which was spearheaded by the billionaire Elon Musk. Administration officials had said the effort would save taxpayers billions of dollars.
Under the program, which was primarily offered early in President Donald Trump’s second term, federal staffers were allowed to resign but first be placed on paid leave for several months without having to work as an incentive to sign up. Some agencies offered more than one round of the program, which proved far more popular in later months as the extent of the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal workforce became clearer and more employees feared for their jobs.
GAO estimated that about $6.7 billion was spent on the deferred resignation program, through which more than 144,000 employees were put on leave.
The US Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, does not know the actual costs of paid administrative leave used to shrink the federal workforce, GAO said, which noted that its figures could be overstated because of limitations with the data reported by agencies. OPM may also be unable to determine if long-term savings goals are being met because of the data issues, GAO added.
OPM took issue with GAO’s report, saying that it “fails to highlight the difference between a one-time expense ($9.5 billion) to reduce the size of the federal government by 270,000 employees and the $40 billion per year savings in taxpayer dollars that this reduction provides.”
“That 400% return on investment is a massive benefit to the taxpayer,” Scott Kupor, OPM’s director, said in a statement to CNN.
CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.
OPM’s data shows that just under 140,000 workers participated in the deferred resignation program, which was launched days after Trump took office in January 2025 through an email with the subject line “Fork in the Road.” Unions had warned workers at the time not to take the offer, questioning whether the government would actually pay them through September, and unsuccessfully sued to halt it.
OPM defended the deferred resignation program in August 2025 in response to Democratic Sen.Richard Blumenthal’s report that criticized the effort as squandering taxpayer money.
“We designed the DRP as a practical, humane, and voluntary option to accelerate workforce transitions in a system that desperately needed movement,” Kupor said in a statement at the time. “Employees were given the option to retire early and receive eight months of paid leave; in return, the government will save $20+ billion in costs, annually.”
Citing the new GAO report, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, slammed the Trump administration for putting so many experienced federal employees on paid administrative leave.
“After promising to cut waste, Trump instead set billions upon billions in taxpayer dollars on fire to quite literally pay people not to do jobs they loved—from researching cancer cures to taking care of our National Parks, and so much else,” she said in a statement, adding, “This was the most expensive way imaginable to make government worse.”
This story has been updated with additional information.
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