President Trump on Monday listed high-tech billionaire Elon Musk over his email demanding federal workers five achievements since last week, increasing the risk of losing his job by doing so. .
“There were a lot of geniuses in sending it. We're trying to find out if people are working, so we're sending letters to people. Tell us what you did last week. People are saying. If they don't respond, it's very possible that there are no such people or they're not working,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
The email directed federal workers to respond to the Department of Human Resources (OPM) by 11:59pm Monday with five bullet achievements.
When asked whether government efficiency (DOGE) could benefit from streamlined communication, Trump denounced the Biden administration, and there have since been people listed as federal workers. I suggested not to.
“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. So, by asking questions, you've been saying this week. Tell me what he did, what he is doing, are you actually working? And if you don't answer, you're kind of semi-dismissal or you're fired,” the president said. Ta.
He added: “Because there are not many people there, so we don't answer. That's how badly the different regions of our government were run by this last group, especially by this last group. So what they're doing is Are they trying to find out who is working for the government, are we paying other people who aren't working?”
An increasing list of agencies, including the Pentagon, FBI, the State Department and the Intelligence Reporting community, told employees not to reply to emails, citing national security concerns.
Trump said he was not worried about the cutting between the mask and the agency head, and that what they are demanding is not going in a militant way.
“It was done on a friendly matter, but probably only Marco. [rubio] The State Department where they have something very confidential or the FBI where they are working on something confidential. And they don't mean that in any way with Elon means that,” Trump said. “But other than that, I think everyone thought it was a pretty original idea. We're where these people are, who are they?”
Other agent managers, including Transport Secretary Sean Duffy, have advised employees to answer OPM emails.
The United States Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) questioned the legal authority of the order in a letter to acting OPM's deputy Charles Ezell on Sunday. Later, expanding lawsuits with other unions suing the Trump administration over promoting government-wide fire probation employees to challenge the threat of masks to firefighters who have failed to respond to OPM emails I did.
