FDA Staff Reviewing Musk’s Neuralink Among Those Fired in DOGE Employee Layoffs

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FDA Staff Reviewing Musk’s Neuralink Among Those Fired in DOGE Employee Layoffs

The Trump administration has made drastic cuts to federal employees since his inauguration on January 20. Several U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees have been released among the firings, some of which are connected to reviewing Elon Musk’s brain interface company, Neuralink.  Although the dismissed employees were said not to have been targeted for their work on Neuralink’s applications, the cuts leave the agency in a challenging situati…