Tough on Crime? Trump Justice Department Purges Law Enforcement Jobs

> President Donald Trump professes to be tough on crime, yet his administration has let go over 4,000 federal law enforcement employees.

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> Reuters, citing records it obtained from the Department of Justice’s management unit through the Freedom of Information Act, reports that several agencies have significantly cut their workforce. The FBI has lost 7 percent of its employees, 2,600 in all, since the 2024 fiscal year, while the Drug Enforcement Administration has lost about 6 percent. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has lost 14 percent of its employees.

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> The DOJ division that handles intelligence and terrorism, the National Security Division, has lost 38 percent of its workers, and told Congress in its last budget request that it had “unprecedented personnel constraints.”

So MAGAs … you care about crime?

Trump doesn’t want law enforcement. He is anti-law. Pro-crime. His only plan for “enforcement” is to persecute and suppress anything and anyone that opposes him.

That is a problem when our nation was founded on the core philosophy that “We are a nation of laws, not of men.”

> A republic is the best form of government, a government of laws, not arbitrary rule. [T]here is no good government but what is Republican. [T]he very definition of a Republic, is “an Empire of Laws, and not of Men.” That, as a Republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or in other words that form of government, which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the laws, is the best of Republics.

— [John Adams](https://constitutioncenter.org/education/classroom-resource-library/classroom/6.5-primary-source-john-adams-thoughts-on-government-1776)