Some government employees dismayed after Musk jokes about buyout offer
After the Trump administration offered two million government employees buyouts on Tuesday, DOGE head Elon Musk joked about ...
Musk team’s push to gut federal workforce bypassed key Trump officials
Billionaire Elon Musk has worked behind the scenes on an initiative aimed at depleting the civil service, prompting questions ...
Shadows of Musk in the Government’s Buyouts Plan
President Trump’s chief cost-cutter cheered an effort to persuade federal workers to quit — in a fashion that closely ...
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Federal-Worker Buyouts May Make Government As Broken As X
Musk tried a similar scheme after his takeover of Twitter. What could go wrong with applying it to millions of federal ...
I Just Got Trump’s “Buyout” Offer at My Job. Let Me Tell You How That’s Going.
The new Trump administration’s effort to both get a grip on and dismantle the federal workforce has also been a dystopian ...
The ‘Muskification’ of the federal government is in full swing
In November 2022, days after Elon Musk took control of the company then called Twitter, employees received an email with the ...
‘Hold the line, don’t resign’: Federal workers encourage each other not to accept Trump’s buyout offer
The Trump administration has offered a buyout to around 2 million federal employees and claims they can stop working and ...
Trump’s Federal Buyout Memo Has Echoes of Musk’s 2022 Twitter Purge
A new memo offering "deferred resignation" to all federal employees seems to be taking its strategy from Musk's chaotic ...
Trump's government-worker buyouts are feeling a lot like Musk's Twitter in 2022
The new administration is emailing government employees draft resignation letters. Musk sent a similar email to Twitter staff ...
What’s going on with Trump’s proposed buyouts for federal workers? Nobody knows
The Trump administration offered two million federal workers eight months of pay in exchange for their resignation, sparking ...