I can’t go into too much detail without revealing my sources. Those things aren’t happening. At least not in the places where the people I’ve spoken to work. But it is an early signal, by no means definitive, that Vought’s threat of a DOGE 2.0/large scale firings is one they’re hesitant to carry out … In this Times newsletter, Jess Bidgood relays Karoline Leavitt’s threat that the layoffs are “imminent” and Russ Vought’s cueing them up. “The question is merely how far [Trump] wants to go.” But again, under the hood, in the boiler rooms of personnel policy rather than official statements, it looks different.