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US Department of Justice cuts thousands of jobs while vowing to get tough on crime

# The Trump administration has cut more than four-thousand employees from some of the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies, even as it vowed to crack down on crime. ​Records obtained by Reuters from the US Justice Department’s management unit, show that the total number of employees at the FBI has dropped more than seven-percent since the government’s ‌2024 fiscal year, a loss of about two-thousand-600 people. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s staff has dropped by about six-percent, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lost about 14-percent of its workers.