Confusion continued Monday over the demands made by federal worker Elon Musk. Hours after the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directed that response to the email was optional, Musk once again threatened federal workers.
He writes to X, the platform he owns: A second response fails to cause an termination. ”
President Donald Trump supported Musk early on Monday, two days after OPM first sent an email asking federal workers to list five things they accomplished last week. Several government agencies, including the FBI and the State Department, have told employees not to respond.
Here is the biggest story of American politics on Monday, February 24th:
Confusion over the latest demand for masks for federal workers
Unions and advocacy groups will try to prevent retaliation against government employees after issuing an ultimatum requesting details in bullet points that face layoffs, or what Elon Musk is doing in their work. I asked the court. The weekend email sent to millions of employees was the latest salvo in a mask campaign approved by Donald Trump, dramatically reducing the federal government. Several federal departments reportedly told employees not to respond to emails.
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Fear intensifies as Trump taps podcasters as FBI assistant director
Fear of the FBI's future direction has risen after Donald Trump announced that Dan Bongino, who has never worked for the department, will become the next vice director. Bongino is best known as a conservative commentator who voiced back Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
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Trump says Putin will accept European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine
Donald Trump said Russian leader Vladimir Putin would accept Ukrainian European peacekeeping forces as part of a potential deal to end the Three Years' War. Trump was talking to France's Emmanuel Macron at the White House as leaders tried to smooth out the transatlantic rifts to achieve peace. However, the conference voted against a UN resolution denounced by the US's invasion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and is monitoring countries such as North Korea, Belarus and Sudan over European allies.
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Judges block access to American personal data
A federal judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk's so-called “Doctor of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) from accessing sensitive personal information from millions of Americans, and was the subject of the controversy in the Second Trump administration. It quickly hit the government's target of shrinking.
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Exclusive: Rebuilding as Neo-Nazi Group Plots leads with the FBI
Information obtained by Guardian from digital accounts shows that international neo-Nazi terrorist groups with US origins are quickly restructuring their global and state ranks. The base reorganization was during the appointment of Kash Patel, a magazine acolite who praised the attacker on January 6, and promoted canon conspiracy theory, as the Trump administration would leave the far-right extremist police. , occurs when policy goals are achieved. Helm the FBI.
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“Doge” claims about USAID funding in India causes political fires
Elon Musk's “government efficiency” has been accused of causing a political fire in India after the US government claimed it had sent millions of dollars to support the elections in India.
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Apple announces $500 million in US investments over the next four years
Apple has announced that it will spend $500 million on US investment over the next four years, including a huge factory of artificial intelligence servers in Texas, adding around 20,000 R&D jobs nationwide. The move comes shortly after reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook met Donald Trump last week.
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US judges allow Trump's AP oval office ban to stand in Gulf of Mexico's name dispute
A federal judge on Monday declined a request by the Associated Press to immediately restore full access to the presidential event for news outlet journalists.
US District Judge Trevor McFadden declined to grant the Associated Press' request for a temporary injunction to restore access to the Oval Office, Air Force 1 and the event held at the White House. The Trump administration banned outlets earlier this month as they continued to be listed in the Gulf of Mexico after the president renamed the “American Gulf.”
Trump's appointee McFadden said the “more private areas” restrictions Trump used were different from previous cases in which courts stopped government officials from revoking access to journalists. .
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What happened today:
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A federal judge has stopped immigration agents from conducting enforcement activities at places of worship for several religious groupsreported by the Associated Press.
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Trump said the US and Ukraine were “very close” to the terms of the rare earth mineral agreement.in comments made during a visit from French President Emmanuel Macron amidst European concerns about the US position in Ukraine.
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The Trump administration has placed all but a handful of USAID employees around the world on paid administrative leave, and has said it has eliminated roughly 2,000 positions in the United States.because rapid dismantling of the organization appears to move to the final stage.
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Federal judge The government's downsizing team Doge has blocked access to sensitive data maintained by the U.S. Education Department and the U.S. Personnel Management Agency.
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Federal judges are expanding protections for trans women in prisons. The judge blocked federal prisons from implementing Donald Trump's executive order, which would transfer three incarcerated trans women to men's facilities earlier this month. These protections are now extended to include nine additional women.
