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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

White House is begging hundreds of office managers fired by Elon Musk’s DOGE to come back to work

Looks like Elon Musk was too good at firing government employees — now we don’t have enough.

The White House is suddenly asking hundreds of federal employees who were fired or took buyouts during Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency purge of the bureaucracy in the opening weeks of Donald Trump’s second term to return to their jobs.

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