Federal Workforce’s Toll After a Year of DOGE and Trump: 317,000
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Federal workforce’s toll after a year of DOGE and Trump: 317,000
The number of federal employees who left their jobs in 2025 will total about 317,000, according to the Office of Personnel Management, after efforts by Elon Musk and the Trump administration to reshape the government workforce. Read more...
Invited to a podcast, the billionaire admitted that if he had to start over, he would not engage in the Doge and would instead devote himself to his businesses.
Tesla's boss, SpaceX and X said he would no longer participate in Donald Trump's Commission for Government Efficiency (Doge), which seemed to regret his involvement at the beginning of the year.
"Would have worked on my companies": Musk wouldn't do DOGE again
Less than a full year into Donald Trump‘s second term, Elon Musk already regrets the time he spent running DOGE. The Tesla head and mega-billionaire served under Trump as the head of the quasi-agency tasked with slashing government spending. In practice, DOGE took a hacksaw to the federal workforce and US foreign aid without bothering to check what many of those employees and funds did. Speaking to former DOGE spokesperson Katie Miller on her po…
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