Minister Ma's layoff plan is proceeding in an orderly manner. After recruiting free volunteers who work more than 80 hours a week online, he has now "thoughtfully" provided a detailed guide for civil servants who may be laid off.
On Wednesday, Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who co-lead the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) program, published an article in the Wall Street Journal saying they plan to work with the Trump transition team as "external volunteers" to "identify and hire a lean team of small government champions" and that they will work closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget in the Trump administration.
Musk and Ramaswamy said they would work with legal experts within the agencies "and with the help of advanced technology" to identify rules that exceed the authority Congress granted to the agencies. They would then present a list of rules to Trump, "who could immediately suspend enforcement of those rules by executive order and initiate a review and revocation process."
They also wrote in the article that their action would "provide a sound industry logic for large-scale reductions in the federal civil service" aimed at determining "the minimum number of employees required for agencies to carry out their legal and constitutional responsibilities": "The number of reductions should be at least proportional to the number of federal regulations being repealed: not only will fewer employees be required to enforce fewer regulations, but once agency authority is appropriately limited, they will also have to write fewer regulations."
They also emphasized that they would encourage civil servants to "voluntarily resign," especially those who do not want to go to the office five days a week, and they would push for the cancellation of the work-from-home policy: "If federal civil servants do not want to come to the office, then American taxpayers should not pay for their privilege to stay at home during the epidemic."
In addition, Trump's advisers also mentioned that civil servants had better not count on the law at this time. Although it is generally believed that the Civil Service Protection Act can protect federal civil servants from unfair dismissal. But in fact, if the layoffs are to reduce the number of overall staff (rather than targeting certain specific employees), such layoffs are legal. But Musk and Ramaswamy still retained "a touch of warmth". They said that the laid-off civil servants "should be respected" and their goal is to help these people "smoothly transition to the private sector."
And the government can use existing laws to "incentivize them to retire early and voluntarily pay severance so that they leave with dignity." There have been criticisms that the plan will cut federal government capacity and deal a blow to the civil service, but Musk and Ramaswamy said they will be happy to take on the challenge and welcome the struggle: "We are prepared for attacks from vested interests in Washington, and we may win."#BabyMarvinf9c7值得拥🈶 
