We are approaching the deadline imposed by Elon Musk for government workers to respond to a collective email about productivity, and the results were expected to – even with a direct statement by President Donald Trump failed to remove matters.
Government agencies have taken significantly different paths towards analgesic email, which is what Advertise Mid day on February 22. He was sent by the Personnel Management Office (OPM), the message He called on all federal employees In response by the end of the twenty -fourth, “5 bullets for what it completed last week,” and Musk said to X that “failure to respond will resign.” According to what was reported, the email did not include these note details.
But although some agencies have apparently ordered compliance, others have called for an optional email or asked the employees not to respond. the Ministry of Justicefor The administrative office of the American courtsfor And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs All employees were taught by ignoring the message and following the internal audit operations instead, according to a multiple news article. On the contrary, it seems that the Treasury is with it Insanitary revenue employees requested To comply.
I issued other agencies Cloudy guidance. In an e -mail obtained by DrillingThe head of the Federal Trade Committee, Andrew Ferguson, told the employees that the responses were “voluntary” – but added that “I responded enthusiastically” to the message and “I encourage you strongly to respond as well.”
As of the publication of this article, the White House did little to clarify the situation. The administration official, who was not named Monday morning, said that the employees should postpone the directives of their agencies, I mentioned Politico. OPM official as well He said Washington Post The office was “not sure what to do with emails” and had no “plans” to analyze it. However, more unknown officials said that workers’ reports “the artificial intelligence system will be fed to determine whether these jobs are necessary or not.” For all NBC news.
At the same time, on the same day, Trump said publicly The people who failed to respond will be “somewhat missing,” adding that “many people do not answer because they are not present.” He denied that the agencies were a collision with Musk by issuing conflicting instructions, saying that it was “this in a friendly manner.”
Musk echoed his behavior after TWTTER, as he demanded that employees be like things like Print 50 pages Of the recent coding works or writing a note The justification of their jobs To receive the shares of the company in advance. But unlike Twitter, where he kept the only undoubted control, it deals with official leadership chains and many other stakeholders here.
However, the impossible interlocking situation leads to the goal of musk and Trump Government paralysisAllow them to plant fear in employees while creating an excuse to release people as desired. (If they are working on nuclear safety or bird flu, they may rise Get half of the arrest after that.)
Like many moves by Musk and the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE), the last procedure ignores the current government structures in a way that may aim to avoid legal or political accountability. However, the email faced an immediate challenge in court. It was included In a modified suit It was presented by groups, including the American Union of Government Employees, which Email Email It is “not thinking and bullying … aims to intimidate federal employees and cause collective confusion.”
Ironically, the characters who claim to fight bureaucratic confusion created Musk and Trump one of the most imaginative Kafkaesque scenarios. We are now looking at a government order that provides a fundamental warning that has never been mentioned in order, as the response may be either mandatory or prohibited, and the failure to respond may make you or not shoot at one time and not be launched. Also, it may not exist.
