By Ireland Owens | Published at Daily Caller

A host of federal government agencies have overseen massive spending for years while greatly expanding their workforces, according to an OpenTheBooks report.

Annual spending across multiple federal government agencies has exploded over the past several years, often outpacing growth of staff and even inflation rates, according to a report from OpenTheBooks first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The report comes amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to crack down on wastefulspending across the federal government and reduce the federal workforce to save American taxpayers money.

The Department of Commerce (DOC)’s annual spending grew from roughly $13.1 million in 2021 — the year former President Joe Biden took office — to an estimated $20.5 million in 2024, OpenTheBooks’ report found. Meanwhile, the DOC’s workforce declined from 53,939 in 2020 to 47,650 in 2024. (RELATED: Trump Teases Enormous Staff Cuts At Environmental Protection Agency)

“Time after time, at agency after agency, we see spending skyrocketing since 2000, even when headcounts grew modestly and stayed flat,” OpenTheBooks wrote in the report. “In this most recent batch of examples, we also saw Biden administration spending priorities reveal themselves through the outlays at key agencies.”

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