Elon Musk once again leaves fingerprints on official communication from the federal government. In E -Mail to the staff on Saturday afternoon the Personnel Management Office, which is arranged with musk loyalists, told employees to send five points in which they described what they achieved last week and their manager CC. “Lack of response will be considered a resignation,” Musk wrote on X.
This movement occurred after President Trump announced that he wanted Musk to be more sturdy. “Elon does a great job, but I would like it to become more aggressive,” he wrote about Truth Social. “Remember that we have a country to save, but ultimately to make greater than ever before. Magician! “
“I will do, Mr. President!” Musk answered in post on X.
A note that is very similar to a note He sent it Twitter staff in June 2023 specify that employees should not include information, links or attachments in their answers. Wired confirmed that employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Service of the Internal Regulations, the National Institutes of Health and the Federal Aviation Administration, which all are in line with classified information, received similar notifications. The deadline is Monday at 23:59 est.
“They prove that their only goal is not performance, but to dismantle democracy by traumatizing federal employees,” says the current federal employee who asked to maintain anonymity because they are not authorized to publicly talk about his agency. “They consider it a video game in which they equalize every time they hurt or eliminate a federal employee.”
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has released thousands of test workers who have been in the federal government for one or two years. The cuts initially hit hundreds of people working on nuclear safety, as well as veterans and employees of the Department of Agriculture who are trying to stop the flu pandemic. The so -called government efficiency department has effectively frozen or otherwise tried to dismantle the United States International Development Agency and the Consumer Finance Protection Office.
It is unclear whether OPM has the right to force federal employees to resign if they do not respond to the e -mail message. “I don’t know if anyone can assess what is legal now, because agencies that are to act as a guards are dismantling,” says Laurie Burgess, a lawyer who represented many employees on Twitter and SpaceX in disputes. She noticed that things that would be heard before the National Council of Labor Relations this spring and it is not sure if the management will continue to exist within this period.
In January, OPM sent to federal employees E -mail with the subject of “Fork in the Road”, reflecting a musk note sent to Twitter staff in November 2022. OPM told employees to return to the office five days a week, and the government will hire people who They are “credible, loyal, trustworthy and apply for perfection.” Those who did not want to follow, received a deferred offer of resignation, which the White House has he said that about 75,000 federal employees accepted.