The Pentagon said on Friday that it would fire 5,400 civilian probationary workers starting next week, in the first of what officials say will likely be a wave of much larger layoffs at the Defense Department,

No doubt you’ve heard that the world’s wealthiest man, Elon Musk, has been moonlighting as a purported crusader against waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. His team from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency,