- Federal workers were asked to send a list of achievements by midnight on Monday night or lose their jobs.
- However, some federal agencies tell their employees not to respond.
- President Donald Trump and Eileon Musk seem to move forward.
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk want federal workers to report their achievements during the past week, but some federal agencies tell their employees not to do so.
On Saturday, the Personnel Management Office sent an email to federal workers who are asking them to send “an email that includes about 5 bullets for what it completed last week” by Monday 11:59 pm East time.
Musk wrote in the X Publishing on SaturdayThe failure in the response will be considered resignation“
She told at least eight federal agencies whose employees have not had to respond to OPM email.
However, Trump and Musk seem to move forward with the request.
What Trump says
“I thought it was great because we have people who did not appear to work and no one knows even whether they were working for the government,” Trump said on an e -mail and musk during a press conference on Monday.
“So by asking the question, tell us what you did this week,” what he is doing says, “Do you really work?” After that, if you don’t answer, you are a type of fangs, or shoots, ”added Trump.
When asked about the different guidance agencies submitted by the request, Trump said he had “done in a friendly” manner and that they did not contradict Musk’s actions.
“Only things like Marco in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where they have very secret things, or the FBI where they are working on secret things. They do not mean this in any way with Elon,” Trump said.
“They only say that there are some people who do not want to make them really tell you what they are working on last week. Otherwise, I think everyone thought it was an ingenious idea,” Trump added.
It seems that the e -mail to federal workers is a response to Trump’s participation in fact on Saturday, as he praised Musk’s work with Dog, but he said he wanted to see musk “becomes more aggressive.”
MUSK’s latest comments on Doge Ask
On Monday, Musk wrote in X Publishing that federal workers who have not yet responded to the request.You will get another chance“
Musk wrote: “Taking into account the president’s discretionary authority, they will be given another opportunity. Failure to respond for the second time will lead to end,” Musk wrote.
Musk also made several comments about the X’s initiative, saying on Sunday that the email was supposed to be “essential” as a request from government employees.
On Monday morning, X responded to responding to Gary Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator, MUSK said that Doge’s request was “basically a check to see if the employee had a pulse and was able to respond to an email.”
“This chaos will be resolved this week,” Musk wrote. “Many people are in rude awakening and a strong dose of reality. They don’t get it yet, but they will do.”
Later, on Monday night, Musk wrote that he believed the request was.Completely trivial“And that the criterion” to pass the test is to write some words and click on send. “
“However, many have failed even in this unusual test, which he urged in some cases by their managers,” he said, adding that he believed that this “inefficiency” made the old “Twitter look good”.
The request is frequented by the Musk request for employees in X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter. Soon after purchasing the social network in October 2022, Musk asked software engineers to print their latest software instructions for review.
White House representatives and Wajj immediately did not respond to the comment requests from Business Insider.
The guidelines differ through the departments
There are already at least 8 agencies that the workers have told that they should not respond to Doug Post yet. This includes the Ministry of Defense and the Social Security Administration, NASA, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services.
It is not clear how the White House plans to register this with DOGE because agencies’ instructions contradict the deadline of the OPM e -mail.
According to Business Insider, some workers’ departments have told the productivity and achievements that will be addressed by agencies, not employees.
Meanwhile, other government administrations told employees that they could respond to OPM if they wish, but failure to respond will not bear penalties.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Defense published X that employees must “stop any response” to DOGE e -mail.
“The Ministry of Defense is responsible for reviewing the performance of its employees, and any review will be conducted according to its own procedures,” the statement said.
There were conflicting contacts from some government departments, which first requested employees to respond to OPM e -mail before reversing the course.
For example, the Social Security Administration told employees on Sunday that the OPM email is a “legal mission”. Then the agency told the employees on Monday afternoon that the response was “voluntary”.
“It is not considered to be the correspondence of the resignation,” as stated in the employees ’email.
This turmoil comes at a few weeks, chaotic for government employees, as Musk Dog has suggested discounts in the wide number through government agencies.
Thousands of federal workers were launched. Some of these workers received the termination notifications, saying that the discounts in the jobs were based on performance, according to the documents that were presented.
