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Why Musk’s radical Washington plans are deja vu

Why Musk’s radical Washington plans are deja vu

Millions of workers have been offered exits and engineers asked to show their skills – just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.

Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

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The email landed in employees’ inboxes with the subject line: “Fork in the road”. The message in the email was stark: accept a sweeping set of workplace changes or resign.

That was the note that millions of federal employees received this week. It echoed a similar message that thousands of workers at Twitter got from Elon Musk in late 2022 after he bought the company.

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