Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk CEOs will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland on February 20, 2025.
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Doge chief Elon Musk doubled Monday night last week with his threat of firing a federal employee who could not submit a five-list of workplace achievements.
“They will be given another opportunity to be subject to the president’s discretion,” Musk said of those workers on his post on social media site X.
“If you fail to respond for the second time, you will be fired,” Musk wrote. Musk writes that President Donald Trump was tasked with significantly reducing federal spending and employee personnel.
Tesla’s updated warning comes hours after the Human Resources Administration contradicted his initial threat.
OPM told the top HR officials in the government’s department: “Employee responses to the OPM emails ‘request to tally the results.’
However, on Saturday, the OPM sent an explosion email to the entire government, ordering workers to submit their list by Monday night. The email did not say that employees who do not work at OPM had no option to not follow.
Musk tweeted about the same day’s OPM email on Saturday, writing, “A failure to respond will be considered a resignation.”
In his X post on Monday, Musk wrote:
“Even so, many people have failed that crazy test urged by their managers,” Musk wrote.
“Have you ever witnessed such incompetence and light emptying about how your taxes are spent?”
Trump told reporters Monday that he was thinking of an OPM email on Saturday, and that the idea that workers who didn’t respond would be finished would be finished.
“Because we have people who don’t show up for work, and no one even knows if they’ll work for the government,” Trump said.
“What he’s doing is saying, ‘Are you actually working?’ And in your case
Don’t answer, you’re kind of semi-burning or you’re fired or you’re fired. Because many people haven’t answered it.
A newly amended lawsuit filed over the weekend cited the first threat of masks.
The San Francisco federal court filing pointed to widespread confusion and controversy over whether employees must respond to OPM’s email demand.
Several key departments, including the Pentagon, have told employees to refrain from responding to OPM requests.
Others, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Subsidiaries of Medicare and Medicaid Services, have told employees to follow.
The lawsuit was first filed Wednesday by a group of unions representing federal workers against OPM and by a group representing OPM director Charles Ezel.
The case requires the judge to order “tens of thousands of federal employees” to be terminated in violation of the federal constitution and statutory laws.
On February 13, OPM “mandated the entire government to effectively eliminate the category of probation employees by termination of tens of thousands of federal employees across the government,” the lawsuit said. I pointed it out.
The lawsuit was amended in that email that OPM “issued after implementing a new mandatory reporting program for all federal employees, the complaint said.
The OPM email was titled “What Did You Do Last Week?”
Please reply to this email in about. CC’s 5 bullet points for what you achieved last week and manager,” the email said.
Before Saturday, federal workers were not required to file reports on the work with the OPM, the lawsuit states.
The amended lawsuit states that by Saturday, “No notices will be made public regarding rules, rules or regulations requiring that all federal employees provide a report on their work to OPM on the federal register or elsewhere. “It’s not done.”
OPM has not complied with procedural requirements regarding this new program,” the lawsuit alleges.
And the lawsuit states that after OPM sent an explosion email to federal workers on Saturday, “at least some federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will not respond to employees’ surprise requests for this OPM. I’ve begun to order.”
In addition to the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the National Intelligence Agency have instructed employees not to respond immediately to OPM emails.
However, according to an email obtained by NBC News on Monday, the Department of Transportation has instructed employees to respond.
“We also ask that you exclude any classified information, links and attachments,” the email said.
The judge is scheduled for a hearing Thursday afternoon over the union’s request that a temporary restraining order block the end of mass.
Musk’s threat to end workers who fail to comply has been criticized by Everett Kelly, president of the United States Federation of Government Employees, one of the unions suing OPM.
“Again, Elon Musk and the Trump administration have shown their total disdain for federal employees and the important services they provide to the American people,” Kelly said in a statement.
“The hundreds of thousands of veterans wearing second uniforms in civil servants to privileged and unelected billionaires with this touch who have never performed an hour-long run. It is cruel and rude to be forced to justify his duties, public service that is honest with his life,” Kelly said.
