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In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees (arstechnica.com)
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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think that is probably the actual reason. Musk probably fired most of NASA, and then realized that the absolute carnage would in this case impact him personally, and it suddenly became an important issue and he needs to have them all rehired so that they can keep paying him his contracts. He still doesn't give a shit about other people's contracts / medications / intelligence operations / statutorily enforced payments / whatever.