Barely a week after mass firings at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US Government has decided that they want them back, amid ongoing Elon Musk chaos
The cuts included about 20 people in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices, several of whom worked on Neuralink.
“This is bunk from Elon,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, a former USAID official who led the agency’s Ebola response during a 2014–2015 outbreak in West Africa. “They have laid off most of the experts, they’re bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
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,
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.
Elon Musk is vowing yet again to fire any federal workers who don’t respond to an email asking them to list five things they accomplished last week.
The billionaire responded to press reports that the FAA may cancel a contract with Verizon and award it to Starlink.
The Department of Government Efficiency-led effort to assess whether millions of federal jobs are necessary through a bulleted list of weekly activities is causing