Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) referred to as out Elon Musk for his new requirement that each one federal staff defend their jobs or else get fired.
“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 put up on X, which included a screenshot of Musk’s authentic put up explaining the brand new requirement.
Smith continued in a separate put up: “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 human assets despatched an electronic mail to all federal staff on Saturday with the topic line, “What did you do last week?” after which the physique of the e-mail asks for workers to answer with “5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.” The deadline to answer to the e-mail is 11:59 p.m. EST.
Musk’s announcement of the deliberate electronic mail and the e-mail itself got here after President Donald Trump wrote on Reality Social that Musk was doing a “great job” as head of the Division of Authorities Effectivity, a non-cabinet division that goals to chop authorities spending, however that he would love him to “get more aggressive.”
Musk defended the e-mail, writing on X that it’s a “trivial task” and a “very basic pulse check.”
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) additionally referred to as out Musk in a put up, saying in a video from the Senate flooring on Thursday that Musk “does not know what he’s talking about” in the case of authorities spending.
“Spending isn’t a ‘conspiracy’ just because Musk doesn’t know how to read usaspending.gov,” Murray wrote 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 responded to Murray on X, writing, “What did you get done this week?”
As the pinnacle of DOGE, Musk has gutted the federal workforce, claiming with out proof that he has discovered “fraud” and “corruption” all through the federal government. The Division of Justice has mentioned that Musk is only a White Home adviser and never accountable for DOGE, regardless of Trump saying the other.
The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
