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This is clearly an attempt from Elon Musk to harass and bully and intimidate the federal workforce, which is part of his broader plan to gut the federal workforce and privatize public sector services to ensure that corporations like his own can get more profit, and that makes me really angry, and my co-workers as well,
Snyder argued
This outside entity sending this email has no legal authority over me,
she saidI got this email Saturday afternoon, about 3pm, ... and I felt absolutely infuriated, getting this email with a demand within 48 hours to provide a response and what I did within the last week or face termination."
she saidWe're trying to find out if people are working, and so we're sending a letter to people: Please tell us what you did last week.
Giving his backing on Monday, Trump said
This threat is illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk is inflicting on the people’s government and its dedicated public servants,
wrote Connolly, whose Virginia district includes many federal employeesWe're actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there, because maybe somebody stole the gold – tons of gold,
Trump saidWe have found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud so far, and we've just started
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I thought it was great, because we have people that don’t show up to work, and nobody even knows that they work for the government,
Trump said Monday at a meeting with visiting French President Emmanuel Macron
The guy in South Africa is not doing you any good — he’s hurting you more than he’s helping,
the man told Sessions at a community meeting, drawing applause, the New York TimesThere was a lot of genius in sending it,
Trump said Monday from the White HouseJust got this email. Where do we begin?"
the White House’s Rapid Response X account posted Saturday evening, accompanied by a screenshot of the OPM email informing employees to comply with the accomplishment directiveThat was done in a friendly manner,
Trump said Monday while speaking with the media alongside French President Emmanuel Macron4. Visited the Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia to see the critical tech upgrades we need to make our air traffic system the envy of the world. 5. Toured Burbank, California traffic control tower and heard from air traffic controllers about how to improve conditions and retain and recruit more controllers."
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Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week, ... Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation."
Musk wrote on XDoD personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information,
wrote Darin Selnick, who is performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readinessIt is cruel and disrespectful for federal employees to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest public service in his life,
American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley said in a Saturday statementWhen and if required, the Department will coordinate responses to the email you have received from OPM,
he wroteI thought it was great,
Trump told reporters of the initiative Monday at the White House
The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures,
Patel wrote in an email
Having put in over 70 hours of work last week advancing Administration’s priorities, I was personally insulted to receive the below email,
Keveney said in an email that acknowledged a broad sense of “uncertainty and stress” within the agency