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MAGA civil war? Trump appointees push back against Musk's threatening email to federal employees [1]
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Date: 2025-02-23
Over the weekend, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) emailed federal employees and gave them until Monday midnight to bullet point five things they had done the previous week. Elon Musk decided that was not sadistic enough. In a tweet, he warned that failure to comply would be considered a resignation.
Mass confusion ensued. Previous guidance from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had said that responses to such mass emails were "voluntary."
NPR reported :
The OPM assessment, published in response to a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's implementation of the email system, states seven different times that any response to the mass emails are "voluntary." The government-wide email system was also used for the "fork in the road" deferred resignation offer. "The Employee Response Data is explicitly voluntary," the assessment reads. "The individual federal government employees can opt out simply by not responding to the email."
Federal workers are discovering unexpected allies — department heads and senior officials. The AP reported:
Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk's latest demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their job. The pushback from appointees of President Donald Trump marked a new level of chaos and confusion within the beleaguered federal workforce, just a month after Trump returned to the White House and quickly began fulfilling campaign promises to shrink the government.
Kash Patel, Trump's new FBI Director, sent his own mass email to FBI employees telling them to ignore Musk. He said that the agency would review its own processes first.
On Sunday, Defense official Darin Selnick sent a message to personnel emphasizing that the DoD, not Musk, "is responsible for reviewing the performance of its personnel and it will conduct any review in accordance with its own procedures."
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