As the Trump administration continues its large-scale federal workforce reduction, it has been revealed that 3,500 federal workers with addresses in Maryland lost their jobs in June alone.
According to local media outlet WTOP on the 20th, in Maryland, 3,500 federal workers and 600 local government workers lost their jobs in June, while 1,200 people were employed by the state government. According to the outlet, the number of federal workers who lost their jobs in Maryland in June is the highest in 30 years monthly.
Meanwhile, Maryland has about 230,000 federal workers, making it the state with the second highest percentage of federal workers in the United States after Washington, D.C.