Elon Musk Suddenly Doesn’t Want Credit for Disastrous DOGE Cuts - Musk is warning Republicans to stop blaming DOGE for the cuts.

[u/Quirkie]

https://newrepublic.com/post/192415/elon-musk-warns-republicans-doge-job-cuts

[u/HyruleSmash855]

It’s a Silicon Valley app approach, which clearly shows the deficiencies of it based on how this has gone. The idea is you break everything and what actually breaks and doesn’t work anymore as a critical system so you bring those people back. It’s a crude approach that Musk likes.

More about it:

Elon Musk’s approach with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to be a “slash-and-burn” strategy that involves rapid, widespread cuts followed by selective rehiring when critical errors are discovered. This approach has been characterized by:

1.  Mass dismissals of federal employees, including those in critical roles like nuclear safety and disease response

2.  Abrupt policy changes with little planning or consideration of consequences

3.  Subsequent rehiring of essential personnel after realizing mistakes were made

This management style closely resembles Musk’s previous tactics at companies like Twitter (now X), where he implemented sudden, dramatic workforce reductions. At the federal level, this has included firing nuclear safety workers and National Science Foundation employees who later had to be rehired.

Similarly, staff from the National Nuclear Security Administration working on weapons programs and Department of Agriculture employees responding to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak were terminated and then frantically rehired.

Andres Lares, managing partner at Shapiro Negotiations Institute, describes Musk’s philosophy as “accountability above all else” that leans heavily on the “stick” rather than the “carrot” and favors abrupt change over gradual implementation. When confronted about these errors, Musk acknowledged to Republican lawmakers that he “can’t bat a thousand all the time” and admitted that DOGE has made mistakes that need correction.

This approach has been criticized as “indiscriminate madness” and has created significant inefficiency and disruption across federal agencies, contradicting DOGE’s stated purpose of increasing government efficiency.

Sources:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/politics/doge-firing-low-performers-new-employees-reality/index.html?utm

https://www.hrdive.com/news/musk-doge-anti-HR-playbook/741752/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musks-department-of-government-inefficiency_n_67c20d56e4b0c96eb9312681

[u/KingAuberon → u/HyruleSmash855]

It's also standard new (bad) CEO policy. Everything you did before I got here is wrong, you need me to change everything and make it all work right.