Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers — just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.

Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel.

Elon Musk pinned an old post to his X account cheekily recalling his 2022 “Fork in the Road” email to then-Twitter employees, offering the workers of the company he’d just purchased a chance to “be part of the new Twitter” by simply clicking “yes” by the end of the following day.