Summary

Elon Musk is distancing himself from sweeping federal job cuts linked to DOGE, blaming agency heads—not DOGE—responsible for mass layoffs, including the announced 70,000 job cut at Veterans Affairs.

Despite claiming DOGE’s role as merely advisory, Musk admitted to mistakes in private meetings with GOP lawmakers and pledged to correct them.

Some cuts have already been reversed, with a Trump administration memo clarifying agencies are not required to fire probationary employees (new hires).

  • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world
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    He’s said he’s scared for his life. I think that’s reasonable given the amount of people he’s pissing off. It’s only a matter of time…

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      He’s just paranoid. However the minorities that are at the receiving end of his racist hate speech, are justified to fear for their lives.

      One a pampered and spoiled trustfund brat fallen into drug induced paranoid hysteria. The other are millions of people he is defaming and scapegoating for his and his friends destruction of the country…who are actually in danger because the hatespeech on x and elswhere is encouraging violence against them.

      Stop being paranoid melon husk.

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      Exactly. He’s fucked over countless veterans with military training and most likely a shitload of guns and ammo. Good fuckin luck bud .

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      3 days ago

      Seen that Lemmy section “Is Elon Musk Still Alive”? Heh

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      Yeah, considering he paid for a role in a fascist administration that he pushed in a fascist direction and bought a propaganda outlet for he should be afraid for his life. He’s basically set himself up as a fall guy for a reconstruction government, especially if Trump keels over first.

      Franco’s life was under threat until the great assassin of time finally came for him. At which point his government fell.

      And I don’t feel sorry for him because I’m over here just living my life and he’s trying to get people to hurt me and people like me instead