Surprise: The Government Is “Scrambling” to Rehire Workers Fired by DOGE

After Elon Musk bought Donald Trump a second term in office, the president granted his benefactor the power to indiscriminately fire thousands of federal employees under the guise of saving taxpayer money. But as it turns out, letting a “ move fast and break things ” billionaire can whomever he pleased—including individuals with decades of institutional knowledge—wasn’t the best idea. In fact, one might even go so far as to call it a really bad one!

The Washington Post reports that “across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.” For example, in May, t