Musk is a business guy, like Trump. They will always be optimistic about everything.
Some sort of audit needs to happen on DOGE savings. Claims of big numbers are headed towards needless humiliation if that money is not there.
Firing probationary employees has merit for sure, but they do not tend to be at the high end of the salary scales. Is big money really going to be found from this? I would guess someone is using “average pay for a Federal worker” to do the calculation and probationary types are far below the average pay level.
The key to understanding federal personnel cuts is that that means there are less employees cranking out regulations that cripple productive Americans.
That in turn will jump start the economy which will generate big numbers in new tax revenue.
Static state budget analysis is very misleading.