The cuts come amid growing attrition from an aging federal workforce, which the Biden administration worried would hollow out the government without intervention.

Jacqueline Simon, policy director for the American Federation of Government Employees, the union that represents more than 700,000 workers, said more than half of federal jobs don’t qualify for ...

They want to do the job according to law and regulation,” said Jacqueline Simon, policy director of the American Federation of Government Employees. “They do not want to be political appointees.