The second Trump administration has the federal workforce in its crosshairs. Spearheading the effort is Elon Musk (the richest man in the world) and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (not actually a government department). Trump and Musk have taken a shotgun-blast approach: instituting a hiring freeze, shutting down whole agencies, telling workers to stop coming in, offering buyouts to 2 million workers, ordering remote workers back to the office in violation of union contracts, and mass-firing workers still in their probationary periods.
Musk is going to lose a lot of legal cases as he gets older and less powerful.
I find myself hoping that part of his sentence is to spend weeks doing all of the jobs he’s unable to take seriously - and that it gets televised.