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KPN

(17,516 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 01:42 PM Feb 2025

Well, it sounds like the "buyout" is just another huge fiasco that costs the taxpayers money. [View all]

https://www.businessinsider.com/75-000-federal-employees-trump-elon-musk-doge-buyout-2025-2

The annual federal workforce attrition rate far exceeds that number -- probably by 50,000 or more. So, it's probably a good bet that most if not all of the 75,000 employees that took the buyout were planning to leave anyway.

Way to go Musk!
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