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If the EPA added ~6000 employees during Biden, why did it have 1,155 employees when Trump took office?

Wow, the bullshit some people are high on.

1,155 is the number of employees in the research office. The EPA overall had 16,155 employees in January 2025 [1].

> Wow, the bullshit some people are high on.

From the article, which was easy to google:

> The EPA currently has more than 16,000 employees, adding more than 6,000 during Joe Biden’s administration as the agency sought to rebuild.