Senator Alex Padilla, D-Cali. requires Elon Musk and Charles Ezell, acting director of the Human Resources Administration (OPM), to stop sending large amounts of emails to staff.
In an open letter released Thursday, Padilla said she received a ton of emails from hr@opm.gov, despite several legislative branches and agents not being subject to personnel lawsuits by government agencies.
“It's not even the White House either. [the Department of Government Efficiency] OPM also has the authority or legitimate purpose to send massive emails of legislative branches and agencies to request information from employees or threaten adverse HR actions,” Padilla said.
Over the weekend, OPM sent a ton of emails to federal workers and asked them to use five bullet points to summarise what they did the previous week. They were providing responses to the survey until 11:59pm on Monday.
Padilla said these emails received by legislative staff were wasted “time, resources, potentially.” [mislead] Employees participate in responding and sharing information on legislative branches in fraudulent ways. ”
Padilla added that emails are “particularly concerning” as some government agencies “even warning their employees not to respond to these messages.”
“The fact that these large emails are beyond the scope of the administrative department is yet another indication of how Doge is working in an info-free, inadequately executed and chaotic way,” Padilla said.
Democrats have concluded a letter requesting Doge and OPM have taken steps to ensure that they have halted further e-mail communications at legislative branches and agencies and their employees.
