U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

Reuters reports that roughly 20 people in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices were let go over the weekend. Including staffers overseeing clinical trial applications from Neuralink,

Per Reuters, 20 people who worked in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices got axed as part of a broader effort being carried out by DOGE to cut down the federal workforce. Several of those employees worked directly on Neuralink,

Federal scientists reviewing Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip were fired as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s latest purge, a report revealed Monday. The group of 20, from the Food and Drug Administration’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices,