Summary

Elon Musk is distancing himself from sweeping federal job cuts linked to DOGE, blaming agency heads—not DOGE—responsible for mass layoffs, including the announced 70,000 job cut at Veterans Affairs.

Despite claiming DOGE’s role as merely advisory, Musk admitted to mistakes in private meetings with GOP lawmakers and pledged to correct them.

Some cuts have already been reversed, with a Trump administration memo clarifying agencies are not required to fire probationary employees (new hires).

  • @proudblond@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    No no, he wanted credit but now it makes him look bad so he’s pretending he never wanted it. But we all know the truth.

    You’re probably right about the boards and shareholders though. Assuming they even think about us at all.

    • @ghostrider2112@lemmy.world
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      4310 days ago

      As someone who spent a lot of time supporting boards, they are only thinking of themselves and the damage to their brands and stock price and compensation. Which, means that efforts to boycott said brands is causing them to think about us in ways that they don’t like to think about us.