by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Yesterday in this space I wrote about the memo that Elon Musk sent out through the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB) to all federal employees on Saturday instructing them to respond with a list of five things that they had a accomplished at their jobs during the preceding week. He gave them until midnight tonight to meet his demand. Later he added an element of threat to his email by tweeting on his own social media platform, X, that failure to respond to his email would be regarded as a resignation.
Musk may have been responding to chiding by Trump to get more assertive in his quest to cut the size of government, and he certainly was operating under what he thought was the cover of executive authority coming directly from the White House, so he had to be surprised at the amount of pushback that he has received from department and agency heads, all of whom were placed in their positions by Trump.
There are reports in Politico's Playbook this morning the US State Department (under the control of Trump buddy Marco Rubio) is telling its employees to ignore Musk's request for the time-being. Kash Patel's FBI is telling their employees the same thing, as are the Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, Energy Department, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Security Agency and even Bobby Kennedy's Department of Health and Human Services.
What the hell is going on? Which inmate is actually in charge of the asylum?
Those departments and agencies represent a sizable chunk of the federal workforce. Who's left besides the woke cops with the Capitol Police and the lunch ladies in the White House cafeteria? People had best be paying attention to Elon and showing him the proper respect because he paid good money to be in charge of their lives - and he has the receipts!
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