A former DOGE employee claims he was fired from Elon Musk's cost-cutting department just one day after his simple claim that 'the government works' was published in an interview.
Sahil Lavingia posted to his blog Wednesday that he had been fired after speaking to Fast Company about his work at DOGE and what he has discovered about the federal government.
Lavingia claimed that he found fewer inefficiencies than he expected while working as a senior advisor to the chief of staff.
'I would say the culture shock is mostly a lot of meetings, not a lot of decisions,' said Lavingia, an engineer and the CEO of tech startup Gumroad.
'But honestly, it's kind of fine - because the government works. It's not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins.'
