ONE federal job was lost in budget sequester after Obama predicted it would make 'hundreds of thousands' unemployed

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Amid national hand-wringing about the 2013 'sequester' – a series of deep budget cuts triggered when Republicans and Democrats couldn't reach a budget deal – the federal government eliminated just one single job.

A little-seen footnote in a Government Accountability Office report confirmed that only the U.S. Parole Commission in the Department of Justice 'implemented a reduction in force of one employee to achieve partial savings required by sequestration in fiscal year 2013.'

Seven cabinet-level departments temporarily furloughed workers last year, but all were awarded back pay when they returned to work. Fifteen more made other cuts instead of parting with workers for even a few weeks. Other Obama administration agencies offered early retirement options and paid bonuses to encourage workers to go.

President Barack Obama claimed on February 19, 2013 that the looming sequester cuts would 'add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls.'