Tech billionaire Elon Musk seems to be having “his plate full” running the Department of Government Efficiency.
When he was appointed the head of DOGE, the Tesla and Space X owner announced cutting some $2 trillion off government spending. His latest move towards this goal includes a request to stuffers to send a five-point email explaining what they’d accomplished in the past week.
Federal staff were given until February 24 to respond to the quest. In his post on X, Musk added: “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
However, the Department of Justice advised the recipients of the email not to respond “due to the confidential and sensitive nature of the Department’s work”, a source said.
Several other agencies did the same, including The Department of Defense. FBI Director Kash Patel gave his employees similar directive.
Democratic Senator Tina Smith criticized Elon Musk for his request directed at approximately 2.4 million federal employees.
Posting on X, the social media platform owned by Musk, Senator Smith shared a screenshot of his email and wrote: “This is the ultimate dk boss move from Musk – except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dk.”
In a follow-up post, she added: “I bet many people have dealt with a bad boss like this—getting an email on a Saturday night demanding, ‘Prove your worth by Monday or else.’ I stand with the workers, not billionaire a**hole bosses.”
Musk quickly fired back at Smith’s post, asking, “What did you get done last week?”
Smith responded: *“@ElonMusk I hate to break it to you, but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.
“But since you asked, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you—funded by cuts to health care for moms and babies.”*
According to Musk, several employees had already responded to his email before the deadline.
Senator Patty Murray also criticized Musk, writing on X: “Spending isn’t a ‘conspiracy’ just because Musk doesn’t know how to read //usaspending.gov. A program isn’t waste just because it doesn’t benefit the richest man in the world. It isn’t fraud because he doesn’t like it. A law isn’t illegal just because he disagrees with it.”
Musk defended his request, calling it “a very basic pulse check.”
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