Slashing Budgets, Gutting Safety: The Fallout of Musk’s Mass Firings

When ideology trumps expertise, national security and public health pay the price.

There’s cost-cutting, and then there’s playing Russian roulette with national security and public health. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Frankenstein creation of the Trump administration, was supposed to make the federal government run like a lean, money-saving machine. Instead, it has become a slash-and-burn operation, hacking away…