Source: The American Prospect
by Charlie McGill
“The Department of Government Efficiency once captained by Elon Musk has ripped through the federal workforce, carelessly and callously firing federal workers with a Silicon Valley-esque ‘move fast and break things’ mindset. As Congress prepares to codify these layoffs into law, many of those employees are asking a question they never thought they’d have to answer: ‘What do I do next?’ One solution, to leave Washington and search for new jobs elsewhere, is a potentially calamitous outcome for the nation’s capital. Yet a flight of fired feds could be a very real possibility. Christopher House, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, co-authored a Brookings Institute report published in March titled ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Response of Labor Migration to Economic Shocks.'” (07/02/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-01-DOGE-layoffs-DC-exodus/