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.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking some of its recently fired scientists if they will come back to their jobs, including some employees reviewing Elon Musk's brain implant company, Neuralink,

Reportedly among the recent job cuts at the FDA were workers overseeing the review of Musk’s brain chip-implant company, Neuralink. Since the moment the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was first proposed,

Americans need “an efficient, effective FDA review process that helps advance the medical technologies American patients depend on. Bringing these specific experts back would help fulfill that mission," said Scott Whitaker, CEO of the medical device industry group AdvaMed, which had criticized the firings.

The FDA plans to rehire around 300 people in total, according to four sources with secondhand knowledge of the situation, following President Donald Trump’s rush last week to fi