{"id":20777,"date":"2025-04-24T22:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/what-elon-musk-didnt-budget-for-firing-workers-costs-money-too\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T22:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:33:37","slug":"what-elon-musk-didnt-budget-for-firing-workers-costs-money-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/what-elon-musk-didnt-budget-for-firing-workers-costs-money-too\/","title":{"rendered":"What Elon Musk Didn\u2019t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings, maybe even a \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2025\/03\/11\/doge-stimulus-check-dividend\/82270711007\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">DOGE dividend<\/a>\u201d check in their mailboxes, when the Department of Government Efficiency was let <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/29\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-trump-administration.html\" title=\"\">loose on the federal government<\/a>. Now, as he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/business\/tesla-earnings-elon-musk.html\" title=\"\">prepares to step back from his presidential assignment<\/a> to cut bureaucratic fat, Mr. Musk has said without providing details that DOGE is likely to save taxpayers only $150 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That is about 15 percent of the $1 trillion he pledged to save, less than 8 percent of the $2 trillion in savings he had originally promised and a fraction of the nearly $7 trillion the federal government spent in the 2024 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/politics\/100000010047426\/elon-musks-team-is-less-transparent-and-still-making-big-errors.html\" title=\"\">errors and obfuscations<\/a> underlying DOGE\u2019s claims of savings are well documented. Less known are the costs Mr. Musk incurred by taking <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-musk-cabinet.html\" title=\"\">what Mr. Trump called a \u201chatchet\u201d<\/a> to government and the resulting firings, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/us\/politics\/usaid-worker-layoffs-trump.html\" title=\"\">agency<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/doge-african-aid-agency.html\" title=\"\">lockouts<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/24\/us\/politics\/showdown-institute-of-peace.html\" title=\"\">building seizures<\/a> that mostly wound up in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that studies the federal work force, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year. At the Internal Revenue Service, a DOGE-driven exodus of 22,000 employees would cost about $8.5 billion in revenue in 2026 alone, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/budgetlab.yale.edu\/research\/revenue-and-distributional-effects-irs-funding\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to figures<\/a> from the Budget Lab at Yale University. The total number of departures is expected to be as many as 32,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Neither of these estimates includes the cost to taxpayers of defending DOGE\u2019s moves in court. Of about 200 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/us\/trump-administration-lawsuits.html\" title=\"\">lawsuits and appeals related to<\/a> Mr. Trump\u2019s agenda, at least 30 implicate the department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNot only is Musk vastly overinflating the money he has saved, he is not accounting for the exponentially larger waste that he is creating,\u201d said Max Stier, the chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service. \u201cHe\u2019s inflicted these costs on the American people, who will pay them for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Stier and other experts on the federal work force said it did not have to be this way. Federal law and previous government shutdowns offered Mr. Musk a legal playbook for reducing the federal work force, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/polls\/doge-elon-musk.html\" title=\"\">a goal that most Americans support<\/a>. But Mr. Musk chose similar lightning-speed, blunt-force methods he used to drastically cut Twitter\u2019s work force after he acquired the company in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe law is clear,\u201d said Jeri Buchholz, who over three decades in public service handled hiring and firing at seven federal agencies, including NASA and the Defense Intelligence Agency. \u201cThey can do all the things they are currently doing, but they can\u2019t do them the way they\u2019re doing them. They can either start over and do it right, or they can be in court for forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Harrison W. Fields, a White House spokesman, defended DOGE\u2019s cuts and called the $150 billion that the administration had saved \u201cmonumental and historic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s important to realize that doing nothing has a cost, too, and these so-called experts and groups are conveniently absent when looking at the costs of doing nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the I.R.S., he said, \u201cEvery single cut has been done to make the government more efficient and not to be a burden to the American people or cut any critical resources or programs they rely on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Based on the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/03\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-doge-federal-job-cuts.html\" title=\"\">latest available information<\/a>, the DOGE cuts have targeted at least 12 percent of the 2.4 million civilian employees in the federal work force. But a wide gap exists between DOGE\u2019s planned cuts and the number of people who actually leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Buyouts and firings initially trimmed about 100,000 workers \u2014 thousands fewer people than those who typically retire in a year, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/retirement-center\/retirement-statistics\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Personnel Management figures<\/a>. At least one-quarter of those 100,000 workers have been rehired at full pay, most after judges ruled that their firings were illegal and some after Mr. Musk said DOGE had \u201caccidentally\u201d sacked workers <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/17\/us\/politics\/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html\" title=\"\">safeguarding nuclear weapons<\/a>, ensuring aviation safety and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/bird-flu-fired-workers.html\" title=\"\">combating bird flu<\/a> and Ebola.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When judges ordered that the workers be hired back, the government put them on paid leave, meaning taxpayers would foot the cost of rehiring them, plus the salaries they collected while staying home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Layoffs of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/27\/us\/politics\/health-department-job-layoffs-rfk-jr.html\" title=\"\">10,000 employees at the Department of Health and Human Services<\/a> wiped out the entire team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention combating H.I.V. among mothers and children around the world. In an interview, two public health physicians said they were caught off guard because the team\u2019s work always had bipartisan support. They were facing termination on June 2 and said they wanted to return to work but did not know to whom to make their case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk\u2019s methods <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/polls\/doge-elon-musk.html\" title=\"\">have cast a pall<\/a> over the latest effort by an American president to trim the federal bureaucracy, as most Americans say they want. In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/23\/us\/politics\/republicans-congress-town-halls-trump.html\" title=\"\">congressional town halls<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/23\/us\/politics\/trump-musk-ncaa-wrestling-philadelphia.html\" title=\"\">interviews<\/a>, even Trump voters have said they are tired of Mr. Musk\u2019s bloodletting. In a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/poll\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">poll released this month<\/a>, 58 percent of those surveyed said they disapproved of how Mr. Musk was handling DOGE\u2019s work, and 60 percent disapproved of Mr. Musk himself.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-74c267fa\">\u2018We Will Make Mistakes\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A week after Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration, the Office of Personnel Management sent a now <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-buyouts-federal-workers.html\" title=\"\">infamous email to more than two million federal workers<\/a> with the subject line \u201cFork in the Road.\u201d They were told they could either resign and be paid through September or risk being sacked down the road.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The email ignited anger and confusion over whether DOGE had the legal authority to pay workers through September. Federal employee unions sued, but a judge <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-deferred-resignation-fork-in-the-road-elon-musk-opm-lawsuit\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">allowed the program to go forward<\/a>. About 75,000 people left, or about three percent. If the administration does not renege on its offer, it will be paying their salaries into the fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The mass buyout did not favor highly rated performers nor distinguish crucial jobs from nonessential ones, practices that guided furloughs during past government shutdowns. Consequently, the administration wound up trying to reverse an exodus of people in vital roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe will make mistakes,\u201d Mr. Musk <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P4To-CU5SIM\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told cabinet members<\/a> in February. After he boasted of feeding the United States Agency for International Development \u201cinto the wood chipper,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/technology\/musk-doge-x-playbook.html#:~:text=and%20relentlessly%20focused.%E2%80%9D-,Mr.,and%20Maureen%20Farrell%20contributed%20reporting.\" title=\"\">a move a judge later found violated the Constitution<\/a>, Mr. Musk discovered that \u201cone of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola prevention.\u201d But his claim to have swiftly repaired the damage <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/health\/musk-ebola-funding.html\" title=\"\">was inaccurate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Separately, a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/17\/us\/politics\/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html\" title=\"\">New York Times investigation<\/a> into cuts to the National Nuclear Security Administration illustrate the effect of the buyouts on efforts to safeguard and modernize the nation\u2019s nuclear weapons. Of more than 130 people who were fired or accepted DOGE\u2019s invitation to quit, at least 27 were engineers, 13 were program or project analysts, 12 were program or project managers, and five were physicists or scientists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Four of these employees were specialists handling the secure transport of nuclear materials, and a half dozen worked in the agency unit that builds reactors for nuclear submarines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThose are such hard jobs to fill, because people could make as much or more money working for the plant or laboratory itself,\u201d said Jill Hruby, who led the National Nuclear Security Administration during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several people on the nuclear safety team found new jobs with the government contractors they once supervised. Across government, a disproportionate number of professionals in high demand by the private sector have quit, according to Mr. Stier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere are plenty of people who are best in class who are sticking it out because they\u2019re so purpose-driven,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it\u2019s easier for someone who has options to say, \u2018This is crazy, I\u2019m not going to do this anymore,\u2019 and go someplace else.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4d7ed6fc\">\u2018Money Being Deliberately Wasted\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In mid-February, the Office of Personnel Management targeted all 220,000 of the federal government\u2019s probationary employees, who are new or newly promoted professionals serving a one- to two-year trial period with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/business\/economy\/probationary-federal-workers-trump-cuts.html\" title=\"\">fewer worker protections<\/a>. They included a cadre of younger, tech-savvy professionals hired at great expense to replace a wave of baby boomer retirees. Hiring and training them cost about $10,000 for a clerical worker to more than $1 million for an elite spy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is the equivalent of a major-league baseball franchise firing all of their minor-league players,\u201d said Kevin Carroll, a former C.I.A. officer and lawyer who represents some of the fired workers. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge amount of money being deliberately wasted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">About 24,000 probationary employees across nearly 20 agencies had been fired by March 13, when <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-federal-workers-rehire-ruling.html\" title=\"\">a federal judge in Maryland ruled<\/a> that the cuts were illegal and ordered the agencies to rehire the workers, but the government appealed and the legal wrangling continues. By law, probationary employees can only be fired for cause, typically for poor performance, Judge James K. Bredar of the Federal District Court in Maryland said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.mdd.578045\/gov.uscourts.mdd.578045.43.0.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in a lengthy ruling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He ordered the government to recall the fired workers, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/trump-administration-reinstating-24500-fired-workers-after-court-order-2025-03-18\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">including<\/a> 7,600 from the Treasury Department, 5,700 at the Agriculture Department and more than 3,200 at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to court filings. But the administration instead put them on paid leave, where they collect annual salaries <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2025\/01\/07\/what-the-data-says-about-federal-workers\/#:~:text=and%2021%20bakers.-,How%20much%20do%20federal%20workers%20earn?,43%20auditors%20and%2032%20economists.\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">averaging $106,000<\/a> while <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/19\/us\/politics\/fired-federal-workers-reinstated-place-administrative-leave.html\" title=\"\">waiting in limbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For each probationary worker DOGE idled, the government lost thousands of dollars it spent on recruitment, hiring incentives, security clearances and training, an investment normally recouped over years of service. In one case, a fired probationary employee with the Department of Health and Human Services received a pay raise after she was reinstated and put on paid leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/us\/politics\/trump-firings-faa.html\" title=\"\">cut about 400 probationary workers at the Federal Aviation Administration<\/a> after multiple plane crashes, including one in Washington in January that killed 67 people. The layoffs included maintenance mechanics and aviation safety assistants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The C.I.A. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/cia-officer-firings.html\" title=\"\">confirmed last month<\/a> that some officers hired in the past two years had been summoned to a location away from the agency\u2019s headquarters in Langley, Va., and asked to surrender their credentials to security personnel. About 80 officers were let go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said it cost $400,000 to get a C.I.A. recruit through the security clearance process and specialized training.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-6c31fa92\">Inflicting Pain<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The theatrics around the firings, including an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-doge-cpac-chainsaw.html\" title=\"\">appearance by Mr. Musk<\/a> at a conservative political convention <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nkMVb0RNptA\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">waving a chain saw<\/a>, suggest they are also about inflicting pain on a bureaucracy Mr. Trump perceives as a subversive \u201cdeep state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That was a goal for federal employees set by Russell T. Vought, who now leads the Office of Management and Budget. \u201cWhen they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains,\u201d Mr. Vought told a conservative gathering in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Buchholz and Mr. Stier emphasize that the government is indeed inefficient and needs reform. But by \u201cgleefully torturing people,\u201d Ms. Buchholz said, DOGE has hurt the government\u2019s ability to recruit young, talented workers to lead a modernization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis country historically has had an independent public service that attracts people focused on service to Americans,\u201d Ms. Buchholz said. \u201cBut this administration values the kind of service you get from political appointees, who serve at the president\u2019s pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Reporting was contributed by <!-- -->Eileen Sullivan<!-- -->, <!-- -->Andrew Duehren<!-- -->, <!-- -->Sharon LaFraniere<!-- -->, <!-- -->Minho Kim<!-- -->, <!-- -->Julie Tate<!-- -->, <!-- -->Zach Montague<!-- --> and <!-- -->Adam Goldman<!-- --> from Washington. <!-- -->Kitty Bennett<!-- --> contributed research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async 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