Elon Musk Is Shamelessly Firing Government Workers Who Were Investigating His Companies

In an unnerving press conference last Tuesday, Elon Musk assured skeptical reporters that his DOGE government cost-cutting efforts had nothing to do with his private business interests. "All of our actions are fully public," Musk stammered as his four-year-old son tore up the Oval Office carpet. "So if you see anything, you say like, wait a second, hey Elon, that [seems like], there's a conflict there, it's not like people are going to be shy about saying that." "If there's a conflict, he won't be involved," Trump claimed this week. In reality, though, it's clear that Musk is shamelessly firing government workers who'd been trying to hold his many companies to account. Just yesterday, for instance, Reuters reported that several Food and Drug Administration workers fired thanks to DOGE had been investigating Musk's Neuralink, a company developing "brain-computer interfaces" for use in human beings (the laid-off FDA workers are part of a broader wave of DOGE cuts which sent upward of ... Read full article.