The president’s payroll is incredibly bloated…
According to a report from The Daily Caller, President Biden spent nearly $61 million dollars on staffers for the 2024 fiscal year. Biden employed more than 500 staffers in three of his four years in the Oval Office. 565 staffers flooded the Biden White House at its peak.
Not since the 1971 Nixon Administration has the number been so high.
In a press release, Open The Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski suggested that Biden’s staff may be so large due to cognitive struggles that were laid bare during the first presidential debate.
“This payroll was made public just hours before the statutory deadline and days after the presidential debate set off a torrent of questions about President Biden’s ability to serve,” Andrzejewski said in the release. “Perhaps unsurprisingly, the support system around him has grown historically large and costly.”
The bloated Biden White House is no surprise as this administration has grown the government considerably, including tens of thousands of new bureaucratic roles.
From The Daily Caller:
Biden has been an ally to bureaucrats, adding 40,000 workers to the federal payroll during his first three years in office, according to Open The Books. In addition to swelling the size of the bureaucracy, Biden also opted to give bureaucrats an average raise of 4.7% in 2023, the largest such raise since the Carter administration.
Former President Donald Trump raised pay for federal workers by 1% during 2017 and by 2.6% in 2020. Biden’s pay raise even exceeded those awarded under the Obama administration.
Trump signed an executive order in 2020 that would have removed protections for some bureaucrats, making them easier for the president to fire. The Biden administration has since finalized a rule that would elongate such a process, anticipating that Trump may try to fire federal workers if he wins the 2024 presidential election.
History may show that this was one of the most bloated, ineffective staffs in American history.
