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Source: Associated Press
After cost-cutting blitz, Trump administration rehires hundreds of laid-off employees
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and RYAN J. FOLEY
Updated 5:49 PM EDT, September 23, 2025
MIAMI (AP) Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musks cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
The General Services Administration has given the employees who managed government workspaces until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs passed along to taxpayers to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire.
Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed, said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. They didnt have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.
Becker, who represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, said GSA has been in a triage mode for months. He said the sudden reversal of the downsizing reflects how Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had gone too far, too fast.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/doge-musk-trump-gsa-fired-employees-ce18553b281fbf5816ec2fd491d79b78

Irish_Dem
(75,383 posts)GSA racked up high bills covering the increased costs of no management and no employees.
All a giant expensive mess.
yellow dahlia
(3,175 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,383 posts)yellow dahlia
(3,175 posts)It has really been a lot of us out here sounding the alarms. It truly is a WE.
But none of us take pleasure in it. The damage is so painful to watch.
Irish_Dem
(75,383 posts)So very painful to watch the destruction of everything we hold dear.
IcyPeas
(24,296 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,383 posts)Fire everyone. But keep the loyalists on the payroll, a nice vacation,
then bring only them back.
yellow dahlia
(3,175 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,383 posts)But yes imagine their time and energy going to good.
It would be a heaven like planet.
I always told my daughter, try to be a plus on the planet.
For god's sake don't be a minus.
And being a zero is not a great goal either.
But in the case of Trump and his pals, being a zero would be a blessing.
yellow dahlia
(3,175 posts)IcyPeas
(24,296 posts)They were seen sitting together at the charlie kirk memorial.
Trump and Musk make up
— Molly Ploofkins (@mollyploofkins.bsky.social) 2025-09-21T21:24:52.071Z
Elon got the message, he's back in the open again, he never left Trump he just needed to remove himself so people would stop sinking Tesla with protests.
— Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) 2025-09-23T11:02:28.144Z
Irish_Dem
(75,383 posts)Tesla was sinking like a stone.
So we had a high school level skit about their "feud."
yellow dahlia
(3,175 posts)Just like they will destroy agencies, and then recreate them through privatization.
mr715
(2,007 posts)pat_k
(11,888 posts)those people will hit the October jobs report like a tsunami (they are technically employed through 9/30, so the job losses won't be reported until the Oct report comes out in early November).
Won't be a very happy holiday for the state of the economy.