The General Director of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center February 20, 2025 at Oxon Hill, Maryland.
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Elon Musk On Monday evening, he doubled with a threat to the dismissal of federal employees who did not provide a list of about five achievements at the workplace over the past week.
“Subject to the president, they will receive another chance,” he wrote about federal employees in the post on his social media website X.
“No answer for the second time will cause a solution,” wrote Musk, whose task is the president Donald Trump with a limitation of expenditure of the federal government – and the number of federal employees.
His renewed warning took place a few hours after the federal Office of Personnel Management He denied his first threat, speaking to the leading human resources officers “that employees of answers to E -Mail OPM” Remanding a list of achievements in the workplace “is voluntary”.
The sand seemed to mock this idea.
“The e -mail demand was completely trivial, because the standard of testing was to enter some words and press Send! However, so many did not even succeed in this test, in some cases by managers, “he wrote on Monday on Monday night.
“Have you ever witnessed such incompetence and contempt for how your taxes are issued? It makes the old Twitter look good. I didn't think it was possible. “
Newly changed lawsuit On Saturday, on Saturday, he submitted the original threat to Musk that employees who did not answer E -Mail with OPM, asking employees what they did last week, forced “resignation”.
This is a report Federal Court in San Francisco He also noticed widespread confusion and controversy about whether employees must answer E -Mail on Saturday with OPM, demanding such lists until Monday evening.
Some main departments, including the Pentagon, informed their employees to refrain from responding to OPM. Others, including the Department of Health and Social Welfare as well as its Medicare and Medicaid Services centers, told their employees to follow.
. Tesla The general director called this effort “Doge”, which means the performance of the government department.
The claim changed on Sunday was first filed on Wednesday by a group of unions representing federal employees against OPM and acting as director of OPM Charles Ezella.
The claim asks the judge to order OPM from the end of “tens of thousands of federal employees in violation of the federal constitutional and statutory law.
On February 13, OPM ordered federal agencies “throughout the government to effectively eliminate the category of a trial worker, solving tens of thousands of federal employees mass”
The lawsuit has been changed after OPM We -Mail implemented a “new reporting program for all federal employees, notes the complaint.
E -Lail from the new E -Mail OPM address was: “What did you do last week?”
“The body of E -Mila was given: Answer this e -mail from about 5 missiles of what you achieved last week and CC of your manager,” said E -Mail. “The term expires on Monday at 11:59 EST”.
Before Saturday, federal employees were not obliged to submit reports regarding their work to OPM, notes the claim.
Musk in the post on Saturday on his social media website x wrote: “According to the instructions of President @realdonaldtrump, all federal employees will soon receive e -mail with a request to understand what they did last week.”
“Lack of response will be considered a resignation,” Musk added in this tweet.
Musk's threat was condemned by Everett Kelley, president American Federation of Government WorkersOne of the compounds positive OPM.
“Once again, Elon Musk and the Trump administration showed their complete contempt for federal employees and critical services that they provide to the American people,” Kelley said in a statement.
“He is cruel and disregarding for hundreds of thousands of veterans who wear their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their professional duties that there is no touch, a privileged, unrelated billionaire who has never done one hour of work, honest public service in his life, “Kelley said.
The amended lawsuit says that before Saturday “a notification was not published in the federal register or anywhere regarding any OPM program, rules, policy or regulation requiring all federal employees to provide a report on their work for OPM.”
OPM “has not met any procedural requirements … in relation to this new program,” says the lawsuit.
And, as noted by the lawsuit, after OPM sent an e -mail to federal employees on Saturday: “At least some federal agencies, including the Federal Investigative Office, began to tell their employees not to answer this request for OPM's surprise.”
In addition to the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Defense Department, the Department of State and the National Intelligence Agencies instructed their employees not to respond immediately to E -Mail OPM.
But the transport department told employees to answer, according to the -mis obtained by NBC News on Monday.
“Make sure you exclude classified information, links and attachments,” says E -Mail.
Later on Monday, the judge planned the trial for Thursday afternoon at the request of the unions for a temporary order to restrain the mass solution.