US Digital Service Employees Face Layoffs As Elon Musk's DOGE Team Takes Over

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Elon Musk's DOGE team is sending termination notices to dozens of staff at the United States Digital Service, Bloomberg reported citing two sources. The USDS is a group of federal information technology employees who's job, Elon Musk's DOGE is set to take over, it added.

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Notably, the USDS and Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency aka the United States DOGE Service, are technically the same entity, as per the report. It however noted that the USDS has been“used more as a vehicle” for Elon Musk to hire his own team.

USDS employees have been working in IT for the US government since the time of former US President Barack Obama . And for weeks, they have been in uncertainty about their jobs, the report said.

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Termination letters have been sent to over a dozen workers from February 14 from the US DOGE Service. The reason cited is US President Donald Trump's January 20 executive order establishing DOGE, as per the report.

“Due to the restructuring and changes to USDS's mission, USDS no longer has need for your services,” one letter said, according to a copy shared with Bloomberg.

The staff who remain have been told that they must come physically to office by April 15, the letter copy showed.

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Before Elon Musk's team came in, USDS offered IT and other help to federal agencies. In 2024, the Department of Education's federal student aid portal's revamp went haywire, and USDS team was the one that helped rebuild it, as per the report.

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