This makes my blood boil. As another commenter said, this is pure vandalism. Musk's reasoning is that we have to cut the deficit. Our deficit is around $2 Tril

This makes my blood boil. As another commenter said, this is pure vandalism. Musk's reasoning is that we have to cut the deficit. Our deficit is around $2 Trillion. Assuming an average salary of $70,000 for the approximately 3 million federal employees (excluding military and postal workers), the annual payroll would be roughly $210 billion. Even if you lay off 25% of federal workers, the deficit will only be cut by 2.5%. The right way to cut deficit is by raising taxes on Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires.