The United States federal government has a 90,000 person agency.
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The Joe Rogan ExperienceNov 6, 2026
The extracted claim departs from the passage: the post says "He's got a 90,000 person agency" about Bobby Kennedy's agency, not the federal government as a whole, and no source ties a 90,000-person agency to Kennedy.
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What was said
… Uh, I left with more respect for him than ever. Uhm, I've never just, full integrity, uhm, never seen him do, you know, anything that wasn't in the best interests, in his mind, for the American people. But I spent a lot of time with him. He's got a 90,000 person agency. He's surrounded by demons who want him out and want him just destroyed. That's his staff? Really? Yeah. Yeah. And Trump's sitting at 2 million. His staff is all completely compromised, for the most, especially the whole infrastructure. …
The Joe Rogan Experience · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The post's "he" refers to Bobby Kennedy, and the passage does not name the agency he leads. The extraction broadens the claim to the federal government as a whole, which the post never says.
Context. AP reported in March 2025 that the IRS employs roughly 90,000 workers, and was drafting plans to cut up to half of them. This is a different agency and an earlier date than the post's claim, so it does not bear on the claim as made.[1]
Context. Other sources give agency sizes that do not match 90,000 for the cited figures: OPM's September 2013 data lists the VA at 337,683, and the Pew and USAFacts pieces list the largest agencies at other sizes. These are unrelated to the post's referent.[2][3][4]
Sources
4 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 2 not rated
- 1The IRS could halve its 90000-person workforce, sources sayapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2What are the largest federal agencies? - OPM.govopm.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3What the data says about federal workerspewresearch.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4How many people work for the federal government?usafacts.org · not rated · cited for: context
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