The Trump administration began sending emails to more than two million federal workers on Saturday, asking them to report what they did last week or forced them to resign.
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(Bloomberg) – The Trump administration began sending emails to more than two million federal workers on Saturday, and asked them to report what they did last week or forced them to resign.
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The guidance was the latest Salvo from the Ministry of Governmental efficiency in Elon Musk to the federal workforce.
An e -mail request obtained by Bloomberg from federal employees to respond with five bullets for what they accomplished last week, and their manager copies. The employees were asked to exclude any information, links or classes classified. The deadline for the response is 11:59 pm in Washington on Monday.
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In a post on social media on Saturday afternoon, Musk said that the guidance came at the request of President Donald Trump.
“The failure to respond is a resignation,” Musk said.
But Musk, a private government employee and a president, has no direct authority to launch federal employees.
“The agencies will determine any next steps,” said Malcolorn Benover, a spokeswoman for OPM.
The President of the Federal Employees Union described the e -mail as “harsh and lack of respect” and said that he would challenge any separation of the members who were launched under the guidance.
“Once again, Elon Musk and Trump's administration showed their complete contempt for federal employees and critical services they provided to the American people,” said Evere Kelly, President of the American Federation of Government Employees. -The billionaire that has not been elected, the distinguished billionaire that has never performed one hour of the sincere public service in his life. “
Email came from the same email address hr@opm.gov used to send federal workers “the fork on the road” to pay their salaries until September if they volunteered to resign this month.
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About 75,000 federal employees took this offer, and since then many agencies have begun to separate the test staff with less than a year or two of the service.
The Musk Publisher has not tackled countless legal and pragmatic complications, and it appears that it indicates that the government can simply stop paying any number of federal workers, from postal service to prison, if no justification is made via e -mail for their jobs.
“Wonderful work”
His warning came shortly after Trump said in a message on social media that “Elon is doing a great job, but I would like to see him becoming more aggressive.”
The question “What did you do this week?” It is he who was asked by the employee of his companies. Before obtaining Twitter in 2022 and re -named it as X, he sent a text message to this question to CEO Parage Agrouwal – who later released it.
Trump Dog was established through an executive order on January 20, which was reorganized by the current White House office, the American digital service, and the team gave the task of modernizing technology throughout the government. He expanded his role in early February to include supervision of spending, reduced employees to transfer the federal workforce, reduce government size and reduce employment in basic positions.
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Musk has pledged to provide DOGE to reduce “maximum transparency” costs and that “all our actions are completely general.” The administration says it has provided about $ 55 billion of federal spending so far, but this week its website has been only 16.6 billion dollars.
DOGE has sought to reach internal systems through many government agencies, which sparked lawsuits for the legal and constitutional limits of Trump as president.
A federal judge denied this week a request from the Democratic State Prosecutor to temporarily prevent Duji's work. Democrats claim that Musk is practicing power to reshape the United States government, which is supposed to be for high -ranking officials and affirmed in the Senate.
The administration also reflected some shootings and discounts, including a health program for respondents and survivors of the events of September 11. The Ministry of Energy decided to return nuclear energy specialists suddenly eliminate their jobs.
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