Sen Tina Smith (D-Minn) known as out Elon Musk for his brand-new demand that each one authorities workers members defend their duties in any other case get hold of terminated.
“This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk – except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick,” Smith wrote Saturday in a post on X, that included a screenshot of Musk’s original post explaining the new requirement.
Smith continued in a separate post: “I bet a lot of people have had an experience like this with a bad boss – there’s an email in your inbox on Saturday night saying, ‘Prove to me your worthiness by Monday or else.’ I’m on the side of the workers, not the billionaire asshole bosses.”
The federal authorities’s personnels despatched out an e-mail to all authorities workers members on Saturday with the topic line, “What did you do last week?” and after that the physique of the e-mail requests for workers members to reply with “5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.” The goal date to answer the e-mail is 11:59 p.m. EST.
Musk’s announcement of the planned email and the e-mail itself adopted President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that Musk was doing a “great job” as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, a non-cabinet division that intends to scale back federal authorities prices, but that he will surely like him to “get more aggressive.”
Musk protected the e-mail, creating on X that it’s a “trivial task” and a“very basic pulse check.”
Sen Patty Murray (D-Wash) likewise known as out Musk in an article, saying in a video from the Senate floor on Thursday that Musk “does not know what he’s talking about” when it pertains to federal authorities prices.
“Spending isn’t a ‘conspiracy’ just because Musk doesn’t know how to read usaspending.gov,” Murray composed Saturday on X. “A program isn’t waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It isn’t fraud because he doesn’t like it. A law is not illegal just because he disagrees with it.”
Musk replied to Murray on X, writing, “What did you get done this week?”
As the pinnacle of DOGE, Musk has really gutted the federal government labor pressure, declaring with out proof that he has really found “fraud” and “corruption” all through the federal authorities. The Department of Justice has really acknowledged that Musk is solely a White House advisor and never accountable of DOGE, despite Trump saying the opposite.
The White House didn’t rapidly reply to an ask for comment.
