Trump officials are trying to undo terminations at the nuclear weapons agency, and critics say Elon Musk's DOGE team didn't know what the agency does.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, including employees at a power grid office, the nuclear security administration and the loans office,

The Trump administration has halted DOGE's firings of hundreds of federal employees working on the nation's nuclear weapons programs.

In his continued attempt to purge the government from wasteful spending (and get rid of some enemies at the Department of Justice), President Donald Trump inadvertently fired some employees with one of the most important jobs in the world: overseeing the country’s nuclear weapons.