FDA staff reviewing Musk's Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings

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   Reuters reported that FDA employees reviewing Neuralink's brain-implant work were among probationary staff dismissed in the DOGE-era purge; the personnel overlap created a direct conflict risk but did not establish that Musk selected individual reviewers for firing.

   Passages and source records documenting: FDA layoffs included reviewers working on Musk's Neuralink

   FDA layoffs included reviewers working on Musk's Neuralink · Review staff were included in the initial FDA dismissals