{
  "id": 7802573,
  "title": "Federal employees were paid nearly $7B not to work under DOGE effort: GAO",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/federal-employees-were-paid-nearly-7b-not-to-work-under-doge-effort",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-16T14:17:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6092643-gao-report-trump-administration-federal-employees-doge-pay/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Trump administration paid outgoing employees an estimated nearly $7 billion to not work as it encouraged them to leave the federal service, a government watchdog found in a Tuesday report. Federal workers use of paid leave increased 435 percent under the first two years of the Trump administration, a dynamic the Government Accountability Office...",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "ABC News (US)",
        "title": "Federal employees paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025: GAO",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/federal-employees-paid-9-5-billion-not-to-work-in-2025-gao",
        "published": "2026-09-16T12:59:47.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}