Elon Musk warns federal workers: Don't make this order.
Tech Mega-Billionaire said early Monday that government officials still working from home will take administrative leave by starting this week, leaning against President Trump's call to “become more aggressive.” Ta.
“People who ignored the president's executive order to return to President Trump's workplace have been warned for more than a month,” Musk, 53. I wrote it on x In response to a clip from Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), who claims that half of the government's buildings are not occupied.
“From this week onwards, those who have not yet returned to office will be on administrative leave.”
His first day back to the office, Trump, 78, Executive action was performed Instruct the head of the agency to end the remote work arrangement “as soon as possible.”
Musk has requested efforts in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as part of ensuring that Trump's executive orders are properly implemented.
Management and budget office I created a carbate “For inauguration committee members to workers with disabilities, qualified medical conditions, or other compelling reasons.
OPM, the agency Musk's Doge works with, estimates that these types of exemptions make around 10% of the federal workforce permanently working remotely.
“We believe so many people won't show up at work, so government will be smaller and more efficient,” Trump publicly said last month. “And that's what we've been trying to do, frankly, for decades.”
It is not clear whether Musk wants to terminate employees with medical exemptions.
Mask Early Monday Warnings for Federal Employees come to employees immediately after the weekend's ultimatum to email OPM five bullet points of last week's performance.
The OPM blown up musk-oriented emails to all federal workers on Saturday, giving the deadline of 11:59pm on Monday. Musk then publicly wrote to X, “A failure to respond will be considered a resignation.”
Unions, Democrats and even a few Republicans, including Sen. Lisa Markowski (R-Alaska), expressed anger in emails, and some workers came over the weekend, hitting their inboxes He pointed out that he might have been on vacation at times. Musk insisted that “the bar is very low here.”
Soon, the obvious power struggle between the OPM and the few government agencies and department heads exploded.
Leaders from several Intel and security agencies, including FBI Director Kash Patel, sent follow-up email blasts to employees and advised them not to respond. Patel told staff that the department, not OPM, is in charge of personnel decisions.
Other agencies and departments such as Health and Human Services, the Pentagon and the State Department have issued similar missions to employees to avoid responding.
Director Musk's emails came soon after Trump publicly tweaked Musk to “be more offensive.” Trump made a demand amid media reports that friction between Trump administration officials and musk is growing.
Musk has a reputation for sending it Similar email blast To a worker at his company.
The world's wealthiest man served as the Crusades to dramatically overhaul the vast federal bureaucracy and shape it into something much more cost-effective. Many of his initiatives face heavy court challenges with more than six dozen cases pending.
So far, the Trump administration is It is estimated that he was fired or fired At least 20,000 workers.
