After mass firings at the General Services Administration, DOGE issued remaining staff an app to take up the excess work — but severely limited its use to a handful of repetitive tasks.

Many federal workers are unable to get unemployment benefits because of the wording of their firings, and others are uncertain whether they can seek new jobs.

NBC Washington asked government workers and contractors to weigh in on the impact of the cuts. Some feel "a punch in the gut."

Departing officials, including disabled veterans, defend themselves and thousands of fired federal colleagues' work with defiant, indignant letters, creating a written record of a tumultuous time.

Wired reports that following a 150-person pilot, General Services Administration employees are using the chatbot, which Elon Musk’s DOGE hopes to expand to the entire agency, for “general purposes.” An internal memo seen by Wired instructs workers not to “type or paste federal nonpublic information,

Elon Musk and DOGE have been trying to slash their way through the federal government, offering buyouts to and laying off scores of workers. Many of their actions are now the subject of lawsuits.