President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been rapidly firing federal workers with little consideration for which ones are critical to government functioning. The Energy Department is scrambling to rehire people abruptly let go from the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration is struggling to explain why 400 staffers were let go mere days after one of the deadliest airplane crashes in U.S. history, and the Agriculture Department is attempting to bring back people fired despite being part of the effort to stop avian flu. Americans widely agree that their government is burdened by 'waste, fraud and abuse.' But the U.S. DOGE Service is simply taking a sledgehammer to federal operations. The result is predictable: Vital functions - including safeguarding nuclear weapons - that should have been nowhere near the chopping block have been axed.