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The Office of Personnel Management, however, disputed the GAO’s findings. “The GAO report fails to highlight the difference between a one-time expense ($9.5 billion) to reduce the size of the federal government by 270,000 employees and the $40 billion per year savings in taxpayer dollars that this reduction provides,” an OPM spokesperson told The Independent. “That 400% return on investment is a massive benefit to the taxpayer.”