Elon Musk accused the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of holding back self-driving technology. Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Monday gave Tesla's stainless steel Cybertruck a 5-star overall safety rating.

According the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the automaker, co-founded and led by billionaire Elon Musk, is recalling some of its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles operating software prior to 2023.

EV giant Tesla is recalling 376,241 vehicles in the U.S. over concerns of loss of power steering assist, the NHTSA said on Friday.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has laid off 4 percent of its workers, a transportation official said. The agency has raised questions about crashes involving Tesla’s self-driving technology.

Cuts to the new autonomous vehicle team will also reduce oversight on the industry as a whole, comprised of massive tech companies and their self-driving subsidiaries like Alphabet-owned Waymo , and Amazon's Zoox autonomous taxis. Both have also faced regulatory oversight from the NHTSA in recent years ranging from crash investigations to recalls.

NHTSA said in a statement emailed to the Detroit Free Press that under President Joe Biden, the agency grew 30% and remains larger than it had in previous administrations despite the cuts. Its workforce was about 800 before the job cuts and in 2023 reportedly had 675 employees.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently laid off 4% of its staff as part of government cuts. Despite this, the agency remains larger than before President Joe Biden's tenure. Investigations into Tesla,

The U.S. Transportation Department told workers they should respond to a demand by President Donald Trump's adviser Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday.

The recent 5-star safety rating from the NHTSA has thrilled Elon Musk to the extent that he recalled he also manages a car company. Following the announcement of the results, Musk stated, “Cybertruck is apocalypse-level safe.

Everyone is very aware that this is a provocation aimed at demoralizing us,” one federal worker told the WSWS. “We won't let it work.”