The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, is doing a total one-eighty on its recent cost-cutting measures. It turns out that hundreds of federal employees who were laid off are now being asked to return to work. The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages government workspaces, has given these workers until the end of the week to decide if they want their jobs back.
This is a pretty big deal because these employees have been on what the Associated Press called a “seven-month paid vacation,” and the GSA racked up some serious costs while they were gone. A former GSA official, Chad Becker, told the AP that the agency was left “broken and understaffed” and that “they didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.” It sounds like DOGE went a little too far, too fast, and now they’re in full “triage mode” trying to fix the mess.
