{
  "id": 7655549,
  "title": "Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/federal-employees-were-paid-9-5-billion-not-to-work-in-2025-under",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-15T23:04:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "slug": "the-new-york-times",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/us/politics/doge-federal-work-force.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}