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BumRushDaShow

(150,074 posts)
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 07:58 PM Feb 22

Musk's cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing his car company

Source: Scripps News

Posted 12:32 PM, Feb 22, 2025 and last updated 12:35 PM, Feb 22, 2025


Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company's cars.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has cut a “modest” amount of positions, according to a statement from the agency. Musk has accused NHTSA of holding back progress on self-driving technology with its investigations and recalls.

Asked about whether the cuts would impact any probes into Tesla, the agency referred to its statement that says it will “enforce the law on all manufacturers of motor vehicles and equipment.”

The job cuts at NHTSA enacted by Musk's advisory group on shrinking the federal government, the Department of Government Efficiency, was earlier reported by The Washington Post.


Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/president-trumps-first-100-days/musks-cost-cutting-team-is-laying-off-workers-at-the-auto-safety-agency-overseeing-his-car-company

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Musk's cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing his car company (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Feb 22 OP
I'm shocked...shocked I say. yellow dahlia Feb 22 #1
Hey Musk have you seen this ................. turbinetree Feb 22 #2
Conflicts of Interest are now a Repuglican requirement to be in Government mdbl Feb 22 #3
I think that's the warning we should ALL heed. MLWR Feb 22 #4
Ha! Conflict of Interest much? slightlv Feb 22 #5
Go postal liberalgunwilltravel Feb 23 #6

turbinetree

(25,974 posts)
2. Hey Musk have you seen this .................
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 08:03 PM
Feb 22

TikTokers Are Hunting Cybertrucks With Anti-Musk Messages

A group named Cybertruck Hunters are using the EVs as rolling billboards to display messages against Musk and Tesla

I wish I could post the video....................here is the link page............

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/02/tiktokers-are-hunting-cybertrucks-with-anti-elon-musk-messages/

MLWR

(249 posts)
4. I think that's the warning we should ALL heed.
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 09:01 PM
Feb 22

DO NOT BUY A TESLA. You could be putting yourself and your family in mortal danger.

slightlv

(5,246 posts)
5. Ha! Conflict of Interest much?
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 10:31 PM
Feb 22

But then, TPTB allow musk to state whether or not something is a conflict of interest. We REAL Americans are not allowed to do that. We have to wait and have someone from an ethics committee tell us. I think this illegal immigrant is getting to much coddling while he's tearing down our government.

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