When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on the line.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-heads of the Department of Government Efficiency, have suggested they’ll make cuts in key government departments, including the Pentagon.

Trump's head of "government efficiency” is highlighting the names of low-level federal employees he wants to fire

Imagine the fear of becoming a personal target of the richest man in the world - and his followers. That's what federal government employees are feeling after Elon Musk publicised their names.

Elon Musk has sparked controversy by using his social media platform to target federal climate officials, triggering online harassment.

In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal, the heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency said taxpayers shouldn’t pay federal employees “for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”

Musk has systematically turned X into a megaphone for his views and has wielded that megaphone to whatever end he finds

Elon Musk is already identifying specific government employees with “fake jobs” as he recommends mass firings as co-chair of Donald Trump’s newly-created Department of Government Efficiency. The billionaire re-shared a post last week that highlighted Ashley Thomas,