Pete Hegseth slashes 60,000 Pentagon civilian jobs in massive purge sending shockwaves

A day after Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency decapitated the U.S. institute of Peace, a congressionally funded independent nonprofit group, the Defense Department made moves to slash the Pentagon's civilian workforce.

Pentagon leaders are looking to slice between 50,000 and 60,000 civilian jobs from the agency.

So far, fewer than 21,000 took the government up on Musk's 'fork in the road' email offer allowing employees to take 'deferred resignation,' according to a senior defense official.

Pentagon officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to ensure cuts don't jeopardize U.S. military readiness. He was one of a handful of agency heads who told employees to hit pause when Musk last month asked 2 million federal workers to write an email about five things they did last week.  

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