ICYMI: “1 in 10 Maryland Workers is a Federal Employee” [Baltimore Banner]

“No other state is at risk as much as Maryland” to Trump’s reckless job cuts

Donald Trump is taking direct shots at Maryland’s economy by firing tens of thousands of federal workers. A recent Baltimore Banner report echoes analysis by Moody’s Ratings that found no other state is as vulnerable to Trump’s cuts than Maryland, where roughly 1 in 10 workers are employed by the federal government.

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Baltimore Banner: 1 in 10 Maryland workers is a federal employee. Here’s where they live, work.

By Greg Morton

March 20, 2025

• The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce will affect communities around the country. But no state is at risk as much as Maryland, where 1 in every 10 workers are employed by the federal government.

• Almost half of all Maryland federal workers live in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties… Federal workers made up the highest share of the workforces in Charles and St. Mary’s counties.

• More workforce reductions are likely. The Trump administration ordered agencies to produce plans to reorganize and cut staff.

• Prince George’s, Montgomery and Charles counties were home to about 160,000 workers in 2023, the most recent year for which U.S. Census data is available. In those three counties, about 1 in every 8 workers was a federal employee.

• But it’s not just counties that border D.C. that have a large number of federal workers. Around 100,000 workers live in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Howard County and Anne Arundel County. The Social Security Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are based in Woodlawn and employed 14,000 people in Maryland.

• Nearly 40% of [87,000] Maryland jobs were at the Department of Health and Human Services. Most were at the department’s National Institutes of Health or the Food and Drug Administration, which are both headquartered in Maryland. Together they accounted for about 1 in every 4 jobs at civilian agencies in Maryland. Both agencies have been targets of Trump and DOGE, as the administration aims to cull thousands from the federal workforce in the name of reducing waste.

• The Trump administration has hinted that it may seek to offload some of its federal portfolio. The General Services Administration, the agency in charge of managing the government’s real estate portfolio, briefly published a list of hundreds of properties, including 83 in Maryland, that had leases slated for cancellation. The agency has since taken the list down.