Elon Muschus goes once again His fingerprints About official communications from the federal government. In an e -mail to the employees on Saturday afternoon the office of the personnel management, which is stacked MuskalistAsked the employees to send five list signs in which they reached the last week and CC their manager. “The failure to answer is taken as a resignation,” wrote Musk about X.
The step comes after President Trump has announced that he wants Musk to be more energetic. “Elon does a great job, but I would like to see that he will be more aggressive,” he wrote about the social truth. “Remember to save a country, but ultimately larger than ever. Maga! “
“Will, Mr. President!” Musk replied in one post On X.
The memo that is very similar to a note Mushing sent On Twitter employees in June 2023, employees should not include classified information, links or attachments in their answers. WIRED has confirmed that employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, National Institutes of Health and Federal Aviation Administration, which deal with all classified information, received similar messages. The deadline for the answer ends on Monday at 11:59 p.m. EST.
“They prove that their only goal is not efficiency, but to reduce democracy through traumatizing federal employees,” says a current federal employee who asked to stay anonymous because they are not justified to speak publicly about their agency. “You see this as a video game in which you every time you violate or eliminate a federal assistant.”
In the past few weeks the Trump government has Delay thousands of probation assistants who have been in the federal government for only one or two years. The cuts initially met hundreds of people who worked on the nuclear security as well as from veterans and the department for agriculture who were trying to ward off a bird flu pandemy. The so -called Department of Government Efficiency is also frozen effectively or tried to dismantle this in any other way Agency of the United States for International Development and the Consumer financial protection office.
It is not clear whether OPM is authorized to force federal workers to resign if they do not respond to the e -mail. “I do not know that everyone can now judge what is legal because the agencies that are supposed to act as wax dogs are dismantled,” says Laurie Burgess, a lawyer who has represented a number of Twitter and SpaceX employees in workers . She noticed that she should be negotiated before the National Labor Relations Board this spring and is not confident that the board will still exist after this period.
In January, OPM sent federal workers an e -mail with the subject line “Gabel in the Street”, an e -mail with the subject line, the street, “fork in the street”. Mirring of a note Musk sent to Twitter employees in November 2022. OPM asked the employees to return to the office five days a week and that the government will employ people who “are reliable, loyal, trustworthy and strive for excellence”. Those who did not want to keep up were given a postponement that the White House has said That accepted around 75,000 federal workers.
