Elon Musk wanted to close the government

As president Donald Trump He was trying to keep Republicans in the House of Representatives in a line on a continuous decision to keep the government open during the fall, Elon Musk He expressed her desire for government Closing, four sources familiar with his position tells wire.

The sources also tell WIRED that Musk wanted to close the government – the goal that contradicts the desire of the White House announced to avoid one – in part because it is likely to facilitate this Elimination of jobs Of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, they mainly achieve a permanent closure. The sources, who gave WIRED not to disclose her identity, specifically to be described in general because information about Musk’s support for closure is closely placed.

“The closure was his preference.” “I think he is besieged by the president. I think it will be really difficult to circumvent it.”

The second Republican, who heard about Musk’s desire to close WIRED, tells that the goal of the billionaire is to be the ongoing accuracy – a bill of spending to temporarily finance the government – to the tank, if it is only to achieve a summary government closure.

“You know that any of this is related to saving money, right?” A third audience says he is familiar with the payment behind the scenes from Musk. “It is all about the destruction of the base of liberal power.”

Musk and White House did not immediately respond to the suspension requests.

Possible closure waving on the horizon with the so -called musk Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Doge) It has cut off its way through the government, and eliminates the estimated estimates sites Tens of thousands of workers. In the event of a government closure, many federal agencies and programs will be placed mainly on the ice. Agencies such as the FBI and others who have law enforcement and security will continue to a large extent at work as usual – albeit with some government workers who are not paid until after the end of the closure – and critical jobs such as issuing a social security examination will not be directly affected. Each section has ClosureNevertheless, most of them will be affected.

Before closing, federal employees are effectively classified into basic or inappropriate work, with non -basic employees dumping and are not allowed to work until the closure ends. According to the FBI emergency plans Assembled Through the non -partisan partnership of public service in 2023, when the federal closure was narrowed, the number of workers who will undergo leave was about 850,000, with about 410,000 of those outside the Ministry of Defense.

The costs of federal employees, including military spending, are about 340 billion dollars annually, so even the layoffs of all federal workers or so may provide about $ 110 billion per year – part of a trillion dollars in the annual federal spending claimed that he wanted to eliminate it.

Musk talks about removing the so-called non-basic workers-who perform important tasks such as food examination, processing benefits applications, and collecting weather data-before that. “If the job is not necessary, or it does not do it well, it is clear that it should not be on public salary statements,” Tell the correspondent musk In late February, according to New Yorker.