Elon Musk is again leaving his fingerprints on the federal government’s official communications. In ‘NE -mail to staff Saturday afternoon, the office of staff management, who were piled up with Musk Loyalists, told employees to send five bullet points in which they set out last week and their manager CC. “If you do not respond, it will be considered a resignation,” Musk wrote on X.
The move comes after President Trump announced that he wanted Musk to be more powerful. “Elon is doing a good job, but I would like to see him become more aggressive,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Remember, we have a country to save, but eventually to make more than ever before. Maga! “
“Will do that, Mr. President!” Musk answers in a post to X.
The memo, which looks a lot like a note that Musk sent to Twitter staff in June 2023, specifies that employees should not include classified information, links or attachments in their answers. Wired confirmed that employees at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, National Institutes of Health and Federal Aviation Administration, all of which trade in classified information, received similar notices. The deadline to answer is Monday at 23:59 o’clock EST.
“They prove that their sole purpose is not efficiency, but to dissolve democracy by traumatizing federal workers,” says a current federal employee who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to publicly over their agency don’t talk. “They see it as a video game where they will equate every time they hurt or eliminate a federal worker.”
Over the past few weeks, the Trump administration has dismissed thousands of trials who have only been in the federal government for one or two years. Initially, the cuts hit hundreds of people working on nuclear safety, as well as veterans and employees of the Department of Agriculture who are trying to ward off a bird flu pandemic. The so -called Department of Government Efficiency has also effectively frozen or otherwise sought to dissolve the US Agency for International Development and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.
It is not clear whether OPM has the authority to force federal workers to resign if they do not respond to the email. “I don’t know that anyone can judge what is legal at the moment, because the agencies that are supposed to act as watchdogs are taken apart,” says Laurie Burgess, a lawyer who has a number of Twitter and SpaceX – employees in labor disputes. She noted that she has cases that must be heard before the National Council for Labor Relations and that she does not feel confident that the board will still exist by that deadline.
In January, OPM sent Federal Workers’ NE -mail with the topic rule “Fork in the Road”, and reflected a note that Musk sent to Twitter in November 2022. OPM told employees to turn to the office for five days a week, and that the government will do so prove people who are “reliable, loyal, reliable and who strive for excellence.” Those who did not want to meet it received a postponed resignation offer, which the White House said that about 75,000 federal workers had accepted.