DOGE is advertised as an entity dedicated to making government more efficient. Their first attempt to "cut out the dead wood" is to fire any Civil Servant still under a probationary classification, i.e., all the newest hires. I have thought of their methods as analogous to a brain surgeon using a hatchet.
A person dear to me has just been fired by the DOGE vandals. She had been at her job for nine years, but in a sad example of bad timing, she had decided to leave her nonprofit and enter the Civil Service. So, this senior person with many years of experience got caught in the "probationary" trap.
Instead of the brain surgeon simile, she likened DOGE's method to "a complex math proof taking up a whole blackboard; you ask someone for the solution, and they proceed to simply erase the entire board and walk away."
Elon Musk should not have this kind (or any kind) of power over the federal government. I wish the United States had a mechanism for calling "no confidence" votes. I think civil servants would show up in droves. The Trump regime is only getting away with this stuff because the majority in both houses of Congress are either complicit or cowardly.
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