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How Elon Musk's mission to cut government spending fell flat [1]

['Sky Uk Limited', 'Kaitlin Tosh', 'Digital Investigations Journalist', 'Kate Schneider', 'Data Journalist']

Date: 2025-08

On 1 April, Washington DC resident Alex Saint woke up to an unexpected email in her inbox.

"Your duties have been identified as either unnecessary or virtually identical to duties being performed elsewhere in the agency," it read. "You will be separated from the Federal service effective June 2, 2025."

It wasn't an April Fools' joke. Alex and most of her team of communications specialists at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had been cut by DOGE.

Her team answered more than 40,000 phone calls last year – 70% of which came from the public to ask questions about medications, she said.

Now, "there's no way to get those answers to the public", Alex said. "I am very concerned that Americans are going to get hurt or potentially killed by all of the delays that DOGE has caused."

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[1] Url: https://news.sky.com/story/how-elon-musks-mission-to-cut-government-spending-fell-flat-13377293

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