MARY BRUCE: 75,000 federal workers have accepted the administration's buyout offer to get paid until September or risk being laid off. About 3% of the federal workforce. Less than the 5% to 10% the administration was hoping for. That offer now closed, and tonight, we're learning mass layoffs for those who didn't take the offer have begun, with thousands of people expected to be let go. The Department of Education yesterday firing 40 employees hired over the last year. In a letter, telling them: “the agency finds based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the agency would be in the public interest.” Meanwhile, Musk, who also runs SpaceX, Tesla, and the social media platform X, and has billions of dollars in federal contracts, today sitting down with Indian Prime Minister Modi at Blair House, even before his visit with the president. Musk there with his young children, sitting opposite visiting Indian diplomats. The president asked, was Musk meeting Modi as a private citizen or as a member of the administration?
DONALD TRUMP: I would imagine he met possibly because, you know, he's running a company.
REPORTER: How does Modi know whether he's meeting with the CEO or meeting with a representative of your government?
TRUMP: Well, he's meeting with me in a little while, so, I'm going to ask him that question.
BRUCE: Now, David, Elon Musk said that entire agencies will need to be deleted and tonight, we have learned that people at several agencies have now been told they've been fired as part of these mass layoffs. People that worked at the Education Department, the EPA, the Office of Personnel Management, the Small Business Administration, and other agencies tonight being told they no longer have a job. And David, thousands more are expected to be impacted.
DAVID MUIR: Mary Bruce on the breaking news, the mass firings now underway. Mary, thank you.