Some of the latest employees on the chopping block at tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency task force are Food and Drug Administration staff who oversee regulation of one of Musk's companies,
U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
President Donald Trump handed more power to Elon Musk yesterday. An American teacher was freed from captivity in Russia yesterday. A judge ordered the CDC and FDA to restore websites that were removed.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking some of its recently fired scientists if they will come back to their jobs, including some employees reviewing Elon Musk's brain implant company, Neuralink,
FDA employees reviewing Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink were fired. Sources said they did not believe the employees were specifically targeted because of their work on Neuralink.
Musk caused alarm among federal employees over an email sent on Saturday requesting that employees summarize their work.
The FDA is trying to rehire 300 recently fired scientists, including some who reviewed Elon Musk's Neuralink. The move follows mass layoffs under the Trump administration, sparking concerns over job security and federal workforce strategy.
In a sign that not every Trump official is on the same page, leaders at the FBI and State Department instructed employees not to respond.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency scouring government agencies for suspected waste, delivered a warning Monday to workers on his platform X. “Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave,” Musk wrote.