Look at the numbers

From Biden Administration Spent $100+ Million On Payroll Since 2021 While 220 Staffers Quit Last Year by Adam Andrzejewski.  The subheading is 220 staffers left what used to be the most expensive White House payroll in American history.

During President Joe Biden’s first two-years, he spent $100.7 million on the largest White House payroll in American history, based on headcount.

No White House ever employed 500 staffers. The Biden White House employed 560 (FY2021) and 474 this year (2022). In 2022, the headcount dropped by 86 employees.

Biden employs 100 more staffers than Trump (374) (FY2018) and five more than Obama (469) (FY2010) at the same point in their respective presidencies.

There was 39.3-percent turnover in White House staff, year over year. 220 employees from last year are no longer on payroll. This mirrored the exact same turnover percentage as the worst year of the Trump administration (2018).

I was especially struck by the turnover numbers, 39% for both Biden and Trump.  Trump was under siege from day 1 whereas Biden has received fairly adulatory press coverage.  With 39% staff turnover (reasonably chaotic for any institution), Trump was reenergizing the economy, achieving historic employment levels, controlling the border, dramatically improving middle class balance sheets, revitalizing NATO and European alliances, achieving several historical peace deals in the Middle East and drawing down on overextended international military commitments.

With 39% Biden has chaos at the Border, historically high inflation, near certainty of a recession, low labor force participation rates, increasing number of military commitments, the Afghanistan debacle, and record increases in violent crime in the US.  

That is a study in contrasts.