Reportedly among the recent job cuts at the FDA were workers overseeing the review of Musk’s brain chip-implant company, Neuralink. Since the moment the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was first proposed,

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.

Cuts over the weekend included about 20 people in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices. That office was reviewing Neuralink.