Sen Tina Smith (D-Minn) called out Elon Musk for his brand-new demand that all government staff members protect their tasks otherwise obtain 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 government’s personnels sent out an e-mail to all government staff members on Saturday with the subject line, “What did you do last week?” and after that the body of the e-mail requests for staff members to respond with “5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.” The target date to respond to the e-mail is 11:59 p.m. EST.
Musk’s announcement of the planned email and the e-mail itself followed 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 reduce federal government costs, yet that he would certainly 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 called 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 government costs.
“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 head of DOGE, Musk has actually gutted the government labor force, declaring without proof that he has actually discovered “fraud” and “corruption” throughout the federal government. The Department of Justice has actually stated that Musk is simply a White House advisor and not accountable of DOGE, despite Trump saying the opposite.
The White House did not quickly reply to an ask for remark.
