Trump Buyouts Mirror Elon Musk’s Twitter Purge

 

By Ken Klippenstein

The Trump administration today offered federal workers an option of resigning their jobs, sweetened by a severance package of about eight months’ pay and benefits. Trump’s plan, the White House says, aims to cut the federal workforce and purge workers, such as DEI administrators. It is a cynical move designed to avoid lawsuits and challenges ahead regarding the rights of civil service workers.

Trump’s plan, expressed in a memo blasted out to federal workers, bears a striking resemblance to one sent by Elon Musk sent to Twitter (X) employees in 2023, before laying off around 80 percent of the company’s workforce. The two memos even have the same title — “Fork in the Road.”

Musk drew attention to the parallels by pinning a tweet to the top of his X page depicting an art piece he says he commissioned titled “A Fork in the Road.”

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Source: kenklippenstein.com