Perhaps the greatest immediate impact Trump 2.0 is going to have on the sector is mass firings of the public sector workforce. The
announcement that Elon Musk - along with Vivek Ramaswamy - has been appointed the 'Department of Government Efficiency’ augurs ill for the 20+ million workers currently on the government payroll. Lyn Alden provides a
breakdown on who these workers are, where in the government structure they operate and how much money would be ‘saved’ if they were all fired, and contextualises it on where the federal budget is currently distributed.