The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday adjusted its count of federal employee layoffs as a result of the current government shutdown, suggesting that the Trump administration’s prior projections of job cuts was slightly overstated.
According to a court filing by the department, 4,108 federal workers have been relieved of their duty since Oct. 1 at the start of the shutdown. The figure represents a downward revision from last week’s estimate of at least 4,278 in a separate filing.
The layoffs cover only a small part of the federal government’s civilian workforce of about 2 million at the start of the Trump administration in January….