“The Department of Defense is responsible for reviewing the performance of its personnel and it will conduct any review in accordance with its own procedures,” Darin S. Selnick, performing below secretary of protection for personnel and readiness, stated in an announcement posted on Musk’s X platform.
Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
The FBI, State Division, Division of Homeland Safety, and Division of Well being and Human Companies have additionally advised staff to not reply, in accordance with the Washington Publish, which added that even that steering has been complicated.
From the Washington Publish report:
“ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE. REMEMBER, WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE, BUT ULTIMATELY, TO MAKE GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. MAGA!” Trump wrote in an all-caps screed on Reality Social.
Federal staff are additionally talking out.
“Sometimes you want to take things with a grain of salt, but then you’re slapped in the face,” an unnamed federal worker advised an area Oklahoma tv station. (Oklahoma has one of many highest populations of federal staff within the nation.) “I have done more than Elon Musk has done tweeting while on Air Force One with the president.”
In the end, Trump and Musk’s decimation of the federal workforce may have damaging impacts on the financial system, in accordance with consultants, because the federal authorities is the most important employer in the USA.
“The economic consequences of layoffs are like a domino effect that spread across local economies to businesses that seem to have no connection whatsoever to the federal government,” Ernie Tedeschi, director of economics on the Yale College Funds Lab, advised CNBC, including that these layoffs are one of many many issues Trump is doing that would harm the U.S. financial system.
“This was a healthy economy coming into 2025,” Tedeschi stated. “And suddenly we have a number of serious potential headwinds that are stacking up. And this is one of them.”
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