DOGE Begins Firing Workers at Federal IT Department (1)

Elon Musk’s DOGE team is sending termination notices to staffers at the US Digital Service, a group of federal IT workers that Musk’s group is taking over, according to two people who were affected.

For weeks, USDS employees, who’ve worked as information technology experts for the US government since the Obama era, have been sitting in limbo. Even though the digital service and Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are technically the same entity now — renamed the United States DOGE Service — USDS has been used more as a vehicle for Musk to hire his own team.

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