A pattern emerges in Elon Musk's federal shakeup: 'Break first, ask questions later'
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A pattern emerges in Elon Musk's federal shakeup: 'Break first, ask questions later'

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A pattern emerges in Elon Musk's federal shakeup: 'Break first, ask questions later' toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Stability used to be a hallmark of working for the federal government. "It's been very eerie watching what's been happening … where he rolls out the same Twitter playbook now with the federal government," Shannon Liss-Riordan, an attorney who has sued Musk on behalf of Twitter employees, told NPR after the "Fork" offer went out. When Musk posted on his social media site X that federal employees could lose their jobs if they didn't respond to the "What did you do last week?" Last week, in response to the Trump administration's mass firings of probationary employees, labor unions sued the Trump administration, claiming that federal agencies themselves had no plans to fire employees but did so only at the direction of OPM.

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