The president of the United States, Donald Trump, gave this Monday, February 24, his support for the controversial decision of the Magnate Elon Musk – in charge of leading the cuts to the federal government – to ask officials from different agencies that summarize their work in an email or risk being fired.
In statements in the oval spite at the beginning of a meeting with the French president Emanuel Macron, Trump called “great” the idea of Musk and assured without evidence that there are thousands of people who are in the workforce of the federal government without working.
“There are people who are not going to work or that nobody knows even if they work or not,” said the president. “If they don’t answer, they are dismissed or semi -designed.”
“What we are trying to find out is how bad the different branches of our government were administered,” he added.
Federal employees of different agencies in the US government. Uu. They received an email on the weekend asking them by President Donald Trump to cut public spending in the US.
In response to the threat of Musk, the leaders of several federal agencies, like the unions, have instructed their workers not to respond.
The newly appointed director of the FBI, Kash Patel, asked his employees to ignore the demands of Musk, as did the leaders of the State Department and the National Security Agency, according to reports in different US media.
In today’s statements, Trump confirmed that both FBI employees and the State Department deal with “very confidential issues” and do not “have to say what they are working on.”
In a brief on the X platform, Musk – who leads the so -called Government Efficiency Department (Doge) – said Sunday that the employees who do not respond will be fired.
“The lack of response will be considered as a resignation,” wrote the businessman, who has led a mass dismissal of public officials since Trump assumed power on January 20.
After winning the elections last November, Trump announced the creation of the Doge to cut the bureaucracy and placed the entrepreneurs Musk and Vivek brancaswamy in front, but the latter disconnected from the organism.
Musk was this month in the Oval Office with Trump detailing before the press the actions that Doge is carrying out and ensuring, in the face of opposition criticism, that its management is “transparent.”
To date, Doge and Musk have led the dismantling of entities such as the Agency for International Development (USAID) or the Office of Financial Protection of the Consumer (CFPB), responsible for monitoring large banks and protecting consumers. EFE
Ultimatum term is approaching its end
The ultimatum term launched by Musk reaches its end: US federal officials have until midnight on Monday to justify their tasks under penalty of being fired, although some units advise otherwise.
Consequently, the Federal Government’s Human Resources Department, the OPM, sent more than two million workers a message entitled “What did you do last week?”
The OPM demanded an answer before midnight on Monday described five tasks performed the previous week, also sent to the employee chief. The only exception is that confidential information is not shared.
Republican concerns
For its part, the main union of federal officials in the United States, the EGE, has promised to challenge any “illegal” contracts of contracts.
“Once again, Elon Musk and the Trump administration have shown their total contempt for federal employees and the essential services provided to the US people,” said its president, Everett Kelley, in a statement.
Even from the Republican side, concerns are also starting.
“If I could tell Elon Musk something, it would be: ‘Please show some compassion there. These are real people. They are real lives,” said the senator of that game for Utah John Curtis during the weekend.
“It is a false argument to say that we have to save and be cruel at the same time,” he added to the CBS television network.
In just five weeks, Trump’s new government has released Musk to fire entire sections of the workforce, cut public spending and suspend the activities of regulatory agencies.
Key positions of the administration have been granted to Trump and thousands of practices employees have been fired. Encouraged to resign in exchange for continuing to charge until the end of September, some 75 thousand officials have agreed to leave their positions, according to the White House.