Within just the last week or so, #ElonMusk’s #DOGE hit team of mostly young, almost exclusively male engineers & executives have done the following:

• Pushed a website live to track “savings” that showed no savings for several days, & made it trivially easy for random people on the internet to make changes to it.

• Published classified info on that same site.

#USpol #Musk #Trump #FederalAgencies #FederalWorkers #TrumpPurge #law #labor #democracy

• Got called out for accidentally inflating that savings amount by $7,992,000,000, & doubled down on their inaccuracy before they fixed it.

• Fired hundreds of people who work on #nuclear security, then scrambled to rehire them, except they had nuked all the work email addresses & personnel files so they didn’t know how to get in touch.

• Basically the same deal, except w/the US Dept of #Agriculture employees working to protect the country from a #BirdFlu crisis.

#USpol #ElonMusk #Trump #law

• Rehired a 25-year-old engineer with a stack of #racist tweets to his name.

• Spouted a bunch of nonsense #ConspiracyTheories about who’s getting #SocialSecurity benefits. (Okay, that one was all #Musk.)

[& that was all before Feb 20, 2025]

#USpol #ElonMusk #Trump #FederalAgencies #FederalWorkers #TrumpPurge #law #labor #democracy

New from #wired who have been doing great reporting on #Musk:

#DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers

Operatives working for #ElonMusk’s #DOGE appear to be editing the code of #AutoRIF – software designed by the #Defense Dept that could assist in mass #firings of #FederalWorkers, sources tell WIRED.

#Trump #law #USpol #TrumpPurge
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DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers

Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.

^{Makena Kelly (WIRED)}

The software, called #AutoRIF, which stands for Automated Reduction in Force, was first developed by the Dept of #Defense more than 2 decades ago. Since then, it’s been updated several times & used by a variety of agencies to expedite reductions in workforce. Screenshots of internal databases reviewed by WIRED show that #DOGE operatives have accessed AutoRIF & appear to be editing its #code.

#USpol #ElonMusk #Musk #Trump #FederalAgencies #FederalWorkers #TrumpPurge #law #labor #democracy

There is a repository in the Office of Personnel Management’s (#OPM) enterprise GitHub system titled “#autorif” in a space created specifically for the director’s office—where #Musk associates have taken charge—soon after #Trump took office. Changes were made as recently as this wknd.

So far, federal agency #firings have been conducted manually, w/HR ofcls combing through employee registries & lists provided by managers, sources tell WIRED.

#USpol #FederalWorkers #TrumpPurge #law #labor #DOGE

Probationary employees—those who were recently hired, promoted, or otherwise changed roles—have been targeted first, as they lack certain #CivilService #protections that would make them harder to fire. Thousands of workers have been terminated over the last few weeks across multiple agencies. With new software & the use of #AI, some government employees fear that large-scale terminations could roll out even more quickly.

#USpol #Musk #Trump #DOGE #AutoRIF #TrumpPurge #law #labor #democracy

Biasini has also been listed as the main point of contact for the government-wide email system created by the #Trump admin from within #OPM to solicit resignation emails from #FederalWorkers.

…In order to conduct RIFs, govt HR ofcls are required to create lists ranking employees who may be subject to #firings. #AutoRIF does that automatically, a fmr govt HR ofcl tells WIRED.

#USpol #Musk #DOGE #FederalAgencies #TrumpPurge #law #labor #democracy

“However, even w/the use of any automated system, the OPM guidance says all data has to be confirmed manually & that employees (or their representative) are allowed to examine the registers.” It’s not immediately clear if #AutoRIF’s capabilities have been altered either by the #Defense Dept or #DOGE.

#USpol #Musk #Trump #DOGE #FederalAgencies #FederalWorkers #TrumpPurge #law #labor #democracy