Elon Musk wants a government shutdown so it's easier to fire federal workers: report
Elon Musk wants the government to shut down so it's easier for his DOGE team to get ax hundreds of thousands of federal workers, according to a new report. WIRED cited four anonymous government sources for the story that comes as the House is set to vote on a spending bill in order to prevent a shutdown.
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Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
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Musk plans to double DOGE staff amid federal government cuts
Elon Musk said Monday DOGE's staff are "pretty much" in every government department and he's looking to roughly double the ...