The richest man in the world and future “cost killer” of a White House returned to the hands of Donald Trump, Elon Musk is not the last of the cynics either. On
“Elon Musk fired 90% of Twitter teams and it's working much better,” the Insurrection Barbie account published this Friday on X, adding an image illustrating how much government employees have to worry about. Post to which the person responded, specifying that the figure was “80%” while recognizing that the meaning of the post “remained valid”.
“Dismantle the bureaucracy”
The purge also began as soon as the billionaire took control of the social network at the end of October 2022. Thousands of external service providers were let go and waves of layoffs followed one another. Of the 7,500 Twitter employees when Musk arrived, only 1,500 remain today.
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Will employees of the American federal administration be eaten in the same sauce? In any case, it was to “dismantle the bureaucracy” that Donald Trump entrusted Elon Musk with the keys to the Department of Government Efficiency. Nicknamed Doge, this ministry will be responsible for chasing down costs deemed unnecessary and streamlining the American administration.
We do not know if Elon Musk will make drastic cuts in federal administration personnel, even if his response to the X's post may suggest so. On the other hand, if the Doge does not yet officially exist as a ministry, it already has two million subscribers on federal government agencies.
