The DOGE Party Is Over. For the Workers Musk Destroyed, the Nightmare Is Just Beginning.
Elon Musk’s DOGE ended with a July 4th celebration, but the 93,000 fired federal workers it left behind are still reeling. This is the hidden cost of political efficiency theater—broken lives, shattered mental health, and the slow collapse of systems we depend on. When we treat civil servants as disposable overhead, we forget they are the human infrastructure that holds everything together.