According to LinkedIn, 285 CDC employees, 88 FDA employees work in China; and almost HALF the DOE's 8,000+ workforce is outside the US

Common sense dictates the government is guilty until proven innocent, and this looks shady to say the least

A family member tipped me off that according to LinkedIn, several prominent US government agencies have a significant portion of their employees living and working outside the US.

Obviously, there are certain departments and agencies that you would expect to have overseas employees because of the nature of what they do, like the State Department or CIA.

However, there are other agencies where it seems a bit odd that they would hire large numbers of employees living in other countries.

I have no idea whether LinkedIn is a reliable source of information for these sorts of stats, or if LinkedIn misses a significant chunk of employees who don’t use LinkedIn. Maybe there is even an innocent or benign explanation for this. Given what we now know about the Federal government revealed by covid though, prudence and due diligence cautions we regard any information pertaining to the government in the manner most skeptical and hostile towards the government -- guilty until proven innocent.

All screenshots and information referenced below were accessed 7/23/23.

Department of Education

According to LinkedIn, the DoE has 8,034 employees.

According to LinkedIn, only 4,330 live in the US.

That’s barely more than half - meaning that almost HALF the workforce of the DOE lives abroad!!!

Of the 3,704 overseas employees of the DOE, >2,200 live in either South Africa (1,239) or in the Philippines (984):

It seems incomprehensible that the DOE - a department that officially exists solely to improve the education of AMERICANS - should have half their workforce living and working in foreign countries. What (legitimate) functions of the DOE are best carried out by foreign workers?? If the CDC, whose mission requires a lot of international cooperation, could manage to keep 80% of their workforce stateside, surely the DOE whose mission has nothing to do with international affairs can figure this out.

Furthermore, it is disgraceful that the US government would offshore thousands of jobs away from US citizens in favor of foreigners - paid for by your tax dollars of course.

CDC

The CDC is listed as having 20,371 employees, 16,087 of whom are listed as working in the US:

While having a sizeable international workforce makes sense because of the nature of what the CDC does is supposed to be doing, that doesn’t explain why the CDC has 285 employees living in. . . CHINA???

At least some of these Chinese employees seem to be Chinese nationals, judging by where they went to school (right hand column indicated by orange squiggly).

Perhaps Congress ought to investigate what these employees do for the CDC.

FDA

The FDA has 18,408 employees, of whom 16,265 work in the US. While that is a pretty robust %, does the FDA really need 2,243 employees working outside the US??

More worrisome is that the FDA has 88 employees working in China:

NIH

The NIH has a (very bloated workforce of) 28,743 employees on LinkedIn, of which 26,032 work inside the US - leaving a foreign workforce of 2,711 employees:

44 NIH employees work in China:

I wonder what they’re up to. . . .