U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

Some of the latest employees on the chopping block at tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency task force are Food and Drug Administration staff who oversee regulation of one of Musk's companies,

In more news about Elon Musk, the Trump administration’s purge of federal workers has targeted staff at the Food and Drug Administration who were reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink.

Barely a week after mass firings at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US Government has decided that they want them back, amid ongoing Elon Musk chaos

Elon Musk caused alarm among federal employees and drew ire over an email sent on Saturday requesting that employees summarize their work for the week, and warning on social media that a failure to do so would be taken as a resignation.

The cuts included about 20 people in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices, several of whom worked on Neuralink.

DOJ’s 2023 complaint alleged that from 2018 to 2022, SpaceX blocked asylum recipients and refugees from jobs by saying in job postings and public statements that it could only hire U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents because of U.S. export control laws.

Big tech billionaire earlier claimed mass mailout last week was mostly a ruse to see if government employees at DOGE-targeted agencies ‘had a pulse’

Patient advocacy groups had decried the firings, and lobbying groups rushed to save some slots that were in part funded by the private sector.

On Monday, Republican Rep. Andy Ogles (Tennessee) introduced a resolution to impeach U.S. District Judge John Bates after Bates required federal agencies to restore content removed from websites for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.