The Trump administration is digitizing federal retirement paperwork after a former mine that houses federal records emerged as Elon Musk’s prime example of government inefficiency.
Musk and other members of the DOGE government-downsizing operation have publicly assailed the government’s process of storing retirement paperwork in Pennsylvania’s Iron Mountain former limestone mine north of Pittsburgh.
Musk called the operation “bizarre.” Another DOGE member, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, said it was an “injustice to civil servants” that paperwork was processed through a “giant cave” packed with filing cabinets.
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The Trump administration announced this week that it’s phasing out federal retirement paperwork and plans to digitize the process.
