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a new report from the Government Accountability Office shows only one layoff occurred due to 2013's sequestration cutbacks. The disparity between what the Obama administration said would occur and what actually happened has one lawmaker calling for an investigation.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is calling for an investigation after a GAO report showed that while the budget restrictions limited hiring and reduced training, it led to only one direct layoff that occurred at the Department of Justice.

"DOJ officials reported that one DOJ component—the U.S. Parole Commission—implemented a reduction in force of one employee to achieve partial savings required by sequestration in fiscal year 2013," the report noted.

Coburn said the report is "devastating" to those who warned sequestration could result in massive jobs losses that some predicted could be as high as a 100,000 positions.

"Despite relentless warnings about the dire consequences of sequestration's budget cuts, it appears sequestration resulted in only one layoff," Coburn said in a statement. "While that's good news for federal employees and other workers, it is devastating to the credibility of Washington politicians and administration officials who spent months—and millions of dollars—engaging in a coordinated multi-agency cabinet-level public relations campaign to scare the American people."

A September study by Goldman Sachs predicted 100,000 federal jobs would be in jeopardy over the next year if sequestration wasn't repealed.

Instead, the GAO report found while agencies restricted hiring or didn't replace retiring workers, only the Parole Commission laid off any workers. The report also notes that many agencies furloughed employees, including the Department of Defense, which sent workers home for six days without pay last summer.

"Nearly every agency studied by GAO limited employee training and travel. Most agencies used leftover funds from previous fiscal years to offset some of the mandated reductions," Coburn said. "Almost no agencies directly reduced the number of staff. "

Coburn called for the investigation in a letter sent to the Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Matthews Burwell. He asked for the total number of permanent federal civilian employees for the last five years, broken down by agency, position and pay, as well as a list of every agency that implemented reductions in force due to sequestration.

"The Budget Control Act is the law of the land until FY 2021, so it is essential to have a complete understanding of how agencies manage their workforces and operations in this constrained fiscal environment," Coburn wrote.