What is going to happen:
People take the bait. They will never see the payout. Elon knows they can't afford to fight the government with their limitless resources and SC in the bag.
They are now on a list. They can get hired somewhere, maybe.
The purpose of the impact is to cripple every agency. Needed or not needed, it doesn't matter. They will show how inept the government is with this self fulfilling prophecy. Fox news will parrot the cost savings while ignoring that the top 0.1% paying their fair share could pay for all of these folks to work every year and all the social net programs.
People will suffer. That is the feature. Isolate folks as much as you can. The very same folks will pump propaganda into their socials. All of the people that left don't deserve shit because they are lazy. Nobody lives outside their algorithm so it will work.
In the end, there will be some people you and I don't see that will suffer and we will post on Surly. I will at least say some random shit while you post bullshit what about this. No real substance. I am very much OK. You are very much not.