Donald Trump has told US workers that some cabinet members ignored the demands of billionaires entrepreneurs to write emails justifying their work, and then he said. He stepped in to defend Elon Musk from rebels in the administration.
The US president was driven to intervene amid the first indication of internal opposition to the destructive impact of Musk’s so-called “government efficiency” (DOGE). corruption.
Newly confirmed ministers, including FBI Director Kash Patel and National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, will send Musk weekend orders to all staff with details of Monday or Midnight or Midnight Al Midnight or Midnight details To this end, I stated not to comply with weekend orders from Musk. Face ends.
As other government departments added to the pushback, the Human Resources Administration (OPM) issued a statement advising employees to respond, but removed the threat of looting, but the agency faced a mask He served as the authority to excuse staff from requests.
“The head of the agency must at discretion remove the person from this expectation and notify OPM of the category of employees excluded and the reason for exclusion,” OPM wrote in a statement. “It’s the agency’s leadership decision on what actions are being taken.”
Cabinet officials will face Musk on Wednesday when White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt joins Trump’s first cabinet meeting despite the tech billionaire not a member of the cabinet.
He “talks about all of Doge’s efforts and the fact that all Cabinet Secretaries identify waste, fraud and abuse at their respective agencies.”
Trump used his wealthiest and most well-known aide to vote for confidence in his vote, using a meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron on Monday at the White House. I did it.
“What he’s doing is saying, ‘Are you actually working?’ Trump said. “And if you don’t answer, you’re kind of semi-fired or fired, because there aren’t many people there, so you don’t answer.
“We have people who don’t show up for work and no one even knows if they’re working for the government, so I thought it was great.”
The original post for the weekend came after Trump praised Doge’s work but urged him to “be more aggressive.”
Intelligence reporting agencies, including the FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency, have argued that if employees comply, there is a risk of changing confidential information.
There was also resistance from other agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. Both are run by major Trump loyalists Christie Noem and Pete Hegses, respectively, and have ordered employees not to respond. The Justice Department told staff there was no need to do so “due to the sensitive and secret nature of the department’s work.”
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS), led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of Trump’s most controversial candidates, told workers to be vague if they wanted an answer.
“I assume that what you write will be read by a malicious foreign actor and will adjust your response accordingly,” the staff member was emailed.
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Bolder signs of opposition were on display. At the Housing and Urban Development Agency (HUD), Trump, a TV monitor sucks musk’s toes in a loop, said “They played what appears to be sucking musk’s toes in Long Live the Real King. According to the Washington Post, this It is written on top of the footage and quotes people working in the department.
This episode crystallized the air of rebellion in many government agencies amid growing scope of court cases challenging the legality of Doge’s actions.
“There’s a complete uprising right now,” Doug Holtz Arkhun, president of America Action Forum, a centrally-right think tank, told The Washington Post. “The goal of Doge was to reorganize agents to achieve its goals, but Cabinet Head wanted to run his agency and opposed the full cut from Musk’s team. It’s there.”
Despite the backlash, Musk accepted Trump’s comments as a signal that he again threatens workers with the bag.
“At the president’s discretion, they will be given another opportunity. He posted on Monday on his own social media platform, Twitter/X.
Later posts made him laugh at his resistance to his original email. “It’s ridiculous that a five-minute email creates this level of concern!” he wrote. “Something is deeply wrong.”
The United States Government Employees Federation (AFGE), a union representing around 800,000 of a powerful federal workforce of 2.3 million, has sneered the original email from Musk, aimed at getting workers to resign He said it was a tactic.
“If I took the time to comment on all the outrageous things Elon Musk tweeted, I would never get the job done,” Brittany Holder said. “AFGE challenges illegal discipline, termination and retaliation against members and federal employees across the country.”
