"Musk’s fire first & ask questions later approach to purging the federal workforce has created havoc, jeopardized critical #government functions, upended the lives of federal employees, likely incurred large financial liabilities for violating the #law, & has been riddled with outright blunders...
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As President Donald Trump’s front man, Musk’s fire first and ask questions later approach to purging the federal workforce has created havoc, jeopardized critical government functions, upended the lives of federal employees, likely incurred large financial liabilities for violating the law, and has been riddled with outright blunders. In short, [Double underlined] DOGE is anything but a department of efficiency. [End double underlined]
At the Department of Agriculture, for example, employees working to respond to the H5NI avian flu outbreak were mistakenly fired, forcing the department to rescind the termination letters. The same thing happened at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the organization responsible for overseeing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, where more than 300 employees were abruptly fired and then called back to work.
"In his 1st memo, Enrich described severe staff reductions... in his 2nd, he noted 72... #USAID activities had no funding, leading to a #death toll that is “not known.” But in his 3rd memo, Enrich estimates how many people will die or get deadly diseases as a result of the cuts."
The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit ( pluralistic.net )
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