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).

  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    Please Americans give the democrats the congress, so they can force Elmo into multi-week hearings Hunter Biden style. Make him lie under oath so much he’ll never recover

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      Why, so they can show up in pink dresses and wave signs some more? The majority of them are just the other side of the oligarch coin at this point.

      • 60d@lemmy.ca
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        2 days ago

        Murca needs electoral reform to a system of proportional representation.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      Bold of you to assume the current administration will let you vote, except maybe as for where specifically the concentration camps for LGBTQ people will be built.

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        It’s one of those funny nuances of the USA though. Their elections are handled by the states, so they can only rig so much.

    • stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      If you think the current batch of democrats will do this even if they have control of congress, be ready for disappointment. The dem establishment is too busy trying to preserve the status quo to actually stand up for the right of the people.