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https://www.axios.com/2025/02/25/doge-elon-musk-employees-quit

DOGE workers quit, refuse to "dismantle public services" on Musk's orders

More than 20 Department of Government Efficiency employees resigned on Tuesday, saying that DOGE's actions are incompatible with their mission as civil servants.

The big picture: The workers, who were folded into DOGE via executive order when President Trump took office, warned in their resignation letter about the risks that DOGE presents to Americans' data and public services.

"We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans' sensitive data, or dismantle public services," they wrote in the anonymous letter directed to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

"We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE's actions."
Zoom out: DOGE head Elon Musk and allies have reimagined the federal workforce, including through layoffs and moving to close agencies or fold them into others.

Thousands of workers took a buyout to leave the government while others have been fired or placed on administrative leave.
What they're saying: In the letter, the former employees said they completed 15-minute interviews on Inauguration Day with people wearing White House visitor badges.

"Several of these interviewers refused to identify themselves, asked questions about political loyalty, attempted to pit colleagues against each other, and demonstrated limited technical ability," they wrote. "This process created significant security risks."

Then-President Obama created the U.S. Digital Service in 2014 to fix problems with the Healthcare.gov portal. Since then, the agency worked on other issues related to the federal government's technology footprint, including developing a tax filing portal to allow Americans to circumvent third-party companies and file directly with the IRS.
Between the lines: Tuesday's resignations were from engineers, data scientists, product managers and an IT department head.

"DOGE's actions firing technical experts, mishandling sensitive data, and breaking critical systems contradict their stated mission of 'modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,'" they wrote.

The other side: "These were full remote workers who hung Trans flags from their workplaces," DOGE spokesperson Katie Miller wrote on X.

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Blow hards. Lol. That last paragraph is the only one anyone needs to read if you were wondering.

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Malbec said:

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boognish_bear said:

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https://www.axios.com/2025/02/25/doge-elon-musk-employees-quit

DOGE workers quit, refuse to "dismantle public services" on Musk's orders

More than 20 Department of Government Efficiency employees resigned on Tuesday, saying that DOGE's actions are incompatible with their mission as civil servants.

The big picture: The workers, who were folded into DOGE via executive order when President Trump took office, warned in their resignation letter about the risks that DOGE presents to Americans' data and public services.

"We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans' sensitive data, or dismantle public services," they wrote in the anonymous letter directed to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

"We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE's actions."
Zoom out: DOGE head Elon Musk and allies have reimagined the federal workforce, including through layoffs and moving to close agencies or fold them into others.

Thousands of workers took a buyout to leave the government while others have been fired or placed on administrative leave.
What they're saying: In the letter, the former employees said they completed 15-minute interviews on Inauguration Day with people wearing White House visitor badges.

"Several of these interviewers refused to identify themselves, asked questions about political loyalty, attempted to pit colleagues against each other, and demonstrated limited technical ability," they wrote. "This process created significant security risks."

Then-President Obama created the U.S. Digital Service in 2014 to fix problems with the Healthcare.gov portal. Since then, the agency worked on other issues related to the federal government's technology footprint, including developing a tax filing portal to allow Americans to circumvent third-party companies and file directly with the IRS.
Between the lines: Tuesday's resignations were from engineers, data scientists, product managers and an IT department head.

"DOGE's actions firing technical experts, mishandling sensitive data, and breaking critical systems contradict their stated mission of 'modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,'" they wrote.

The other side: "These were full remote workers who hung Trans flags from their workplaces," DOGE spokesperson Katie Miller wrote on X.

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Blow hards. Lol. That last paragraph is the only one anyone needs to read if you were wondering.

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Apparently, some number over 20 employees resigned via an anonymous letter? How does that work?

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4th and Inches said:

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boognish_bear said:

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https://www.axios.com/2025/02/25/doge-elon-musk-employees-quit

DOGE workers quit, refuse to "dismantle public services" on Musk's orders

More than 20 Department of Government Efficiency employees resigned on Tuesday, saying that DOGE's actions are incompatible with their mission as civil servants.

The big picture: The workers, who were folded into DOGE via executive order when President Trump took office, warned in their resignation letter about the risks that DOGE presents to Americans' data and public services.

"We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans' sensitive data, or dismantle public services," they wrote in the anonymous letter directed to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

"We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE's actions."
Zoom out: DOGE head Elon Musk and allies have reimagined the federal workforce, including through layoffs and moving to close agencies or fold them into others.

Thousands of workers took a buyout to leave the government while others have been fired or placed on administrative leave.
What they're saying: In the letter, the former employees said they completed 15-minute interviews on Inauguration Day with people wearing White House visitor badges.

"Several of these interviewers refused to identify themselves, asked questions about political loyalty, attempted to pit colleagues against each other, and demonstrated limited technical ability," they wrote. "This process created significant security risks."

Then-President Obama created the U.S. Digital Service in 2014 to fix problems with the Healthcare.gov portal. Since then, the agency worked on other issues related to the federal government's technology footprint, including developing a tax filing portal to allow Americans to circumvent third-party companies and file directly with the IRS.
Between the lines: Tuesday's resignations were from engineers, data scientists, product managers and an IT department head.

"DOGE's actions firing technical experts, mishandling sensitive data, and breaking critical systems contradict their stated mission of 'modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,'" they wrote.

The other side: "These were full remote workers who hung Trans flags from their workplaces," DOGE spokesperson Katie Miller wrote on X.

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Blow hards. Lol. That last paragraph is the only one anyone needs to read if you were wondering.

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Apparently, some number over 20 employees resigned via an anonymous letter? How does that work?

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its a cross between quiet quitting and actually quitting

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Married A Horn said:

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BIG: Trump calls for national paper ballot elections - cost just 8% of the cost of electronic systems, can produce accurate auditable results on election night, and have invisible security features that prevent counterfeiting.

Fact Check: True -> More https://t.co/foMYd4A9AH https://t.co/WZZXSq4B48

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 21, 2025

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Election Integrity: 77% Favor Voter ID https://t.co/RWqKlyYBsX

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 21, 2025

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The only individuals against the use of voter ID and paper ballots are those who favor election fraud.

Period

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That is just not correct. The vast majority would have absolutely no interest in voter fraud, but for most, it is virtue signaling, and for a minority it is actual, real fear that minorities would be disproportionately impacted by voter ID laws. I can pull this statistic outta my butt, and know 100% it's right: less than 5% of the country really wants fraud in the election.

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Wrong. Voter ID suppressing minorities is a racist comment. Minorities have IDs to do the rest of their life - why cant they figure out how to do it to vote?

Oh wait, you mean illegals? Yeah, it will suppress the illegal vote - so that minority, yeah, you are correct.

Is your boyfriend illegal?

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It is a fact that minority citizens have voter ID at a lesser rate due to being impoverished at a higher rate. Do facts bother you?

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Liberals cannot see the implicit racism of their belief that minorities are simply not capable obtaining ID. It's not actually true, of course, but then liberals never let facts get in the way of their feelings.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14909764/study-voter-id-racism

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He nor his boyfriend will address that article. Its contrary to his narrative. Plus, he doesn't really care. It's just more virtue signaling to enable cheating in elections.

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we all know you are uneducated and ignorant, but quit wasting our time with the "boyfriend". crap. It shows your immaturity, childishness and lack of being a grown up. quit, you homophobe. I think the horn you married (yuk) is really your "boyfriend ". See how stupid that is?

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Wait, are you his boyfriend??

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no, I have a very classy boyfriend. Is that Horn you married a Lesbian? Do you not understand how childish and uneducated you are? Quit showing your arse.

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Are yall having a lover's spat? You seem on edge.

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I thought this was from a Key and Peele sketch https://t.co/OHNdR544cy

— Danny Polishchuk (@Dannyjokes) February 26, 2025

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BIG: Trump calls for national paper ballot elections - cost just 8% of the cost of electronic systems, can produce accurate auditable results on election night, and have invisible security features that prevent counterfeiting.

Fact Check: True -> More https://t.co/foMYd4A9AH https://t.co/WZZXSq4B48

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 21, 2025

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Election Integrity: 77% Favor Voter ID https://t.co/RWqKlyYBsX

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 21, 2025

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The only individuals against the use of voter ID and paper ballots are those who favor election fraud.

Period

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That is just not correct. The vast majority would have absolutely no interest in voter fraud, but for most, it is virtue signaling, and for a minority it is actual, real fear that minorities would be disproportionately impacted by voter ID laws. I can pull this statistic outta my butt, and know 100% it's right: less than 5% of the country really wants fraud in the election.

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Wrong. Voter ID suppressing minorities is a racist comment. Minorities have IDs to do the rest of their life - why cant they figure out how to do it to vote?

Oh wait, you mean illegals? Yeah, it will suppress the illegal vote - so that minority, yeah, you are correct.

Is your boyfriend illegal?

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It is a fact that minority citizens have voter ID at a lesser rate due to being impoverished at a higher rate. Do facts bother you?

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The impoverished issue has nothing to do with the cost of ID. In Georgia and many other states there is a free voter ID. The issue is the fluid nature of residency, which is an actual vote integrity issue. Voting is precinct and location specific, and the inability to establish that is a problem for the majority of items on a ballot.

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boognish_bear said:

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The GOP budget extends the 5 yr. tax holiday we’ve been enjoying, but because it doesn’t cut spending much, it increases the deficit by over $300 billion/yr. compared to letting tax cuts expire. Over 10 years, this budget will add $20 trillion to US debt.pic.twitter.com/JZ2tDoTHI6

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 25, 2025

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BigGameBaylorBear said:

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I like what he is doing but I would prefer for him to keep it behind the scenes outside of an update here and there

He should keep some things to himself though, like this tweet

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He's not wrong. He's just repeating what other conservatives have said.

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White House restores HBCU scholarships after pressure from Ossoff, lawmakers https://t.co/68DpprMCcB

— Atlanta Journal-Constitution (@ajc) February 25, 2025

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BIG: Trump calls for national paper ballot elections - cost just 8% of the cost of electronic systems, can produce accurate auditable results on election night, and have invisible security features that prevent counterfeiting.

Fact Check: True -> More https://t.co/foMYd4A9AH https://t.co/WZZXSq4B48

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 21, 2025

related

Election Integrity: 77% Favor Voter ID https://t.co/RWqKlyYBsX

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 21, 2025

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The only individuals against the use of voter ID and paper ballots are those who favor election fraud.

Period

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That is just not correct. The vast majority would have absolutely no interest in voter fraud, but for most, it is virtue signaling, and for a minority it is actual, real fear that minorities would be disproportionately impacted by voter ID laws. I can pull this statistic outta my butt, and know 100% it's right: less than 5% of the country really wants fraud in the election.

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Wrong. Voter ID suppressing minorities is a racist comment. Minorities have IDs to do the rest of their life - why cant they figure out how to do it to vote?

Oh wait, you mean illegals? Yeah, it will suppress the illegal vote - so that minority, yeah, you are correct.

Is your boyfriend illegal?

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It is a fact that minority citizens have voter ID at a lesser rate due to being impoverished at a higher rate. Do facts bother you?

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The impoverished issue has nothing to do with the cost of ID. In Georgia and many other states there is a free voter ID. The issue is the fluid nature of residency, which is an actual vote integrity issue. Voting is precinct and location specific, and the inability to establish that is a problem for the majority of items on a ballot.

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It's not the actual ability to pay for state issued ID, it's poverty. I support voter ID, but it will prevent impoverished people from voting, and minorities, especially blacks, are disproportionately impoverished. So yes these people have a point.

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Meanwhile….. pic.twitter.com/7d7hCEsMQQ

— Dory Beutel 🇺🇸✌🏼🇺🇸 (@DoryBeutel) February 25, 2025

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The GOP budget extends the 5 yr. tax holiday we’ve been enjoying, but because it doesn’t cut spending much, it increases the deficit by over $300 billion/yr. compared to letting tax cuts expire. Over 10 years, this budget will add $20 trillion to US debt.pic.twitter.com/JZ2tDoTHI6

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 25, 2025

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Yeah. Paying off a debt is 2 things- cutting your spending, increasing your income. When your debt is 37 trillion, you better do both. Cutting your income is one of the dumbest things imaginable. But year after year, America basically votes to impoverish our kids and grandkids, so whatever.

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https://www.axios.com/2025/02/25/doge-elon-musk-employees-quit

DOGE workers quit, refuse to "dismantle public services" on Musk's orders

More than 20 Department of Government Efficiency employees resigned on Tuesday, saying that DOGE's actions are incompatible with their mission as civil servants.

The big picture: The workers, who were folded into DOGE via executive order when President Trump took office, warned in their resignation letter about the risks that DOGE presents to Americans' data and public services.

"We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans' sensitive data, or dismantle public services," they wrote in the anonymous letter directed to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

"We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE's actions."
Zoom out: DOGE head Elon Musk and allies have reimagined the federal workforce, including through layoffs and moving to close agencies or fold them into others.

Thousands of workers took a buyout to leave the government while others have been fired or placed on administrative leave.
What they're saying: In the letter, the former employees said they completed 15-minute interviews on Inauguration Day with people wearing White House visitor badges.

"Several of these interviewers refused to identify themselves, asked questions about political loyalty, attempted to pit colleagues against each other, and demonstrated limited technical ability," they wrote. "This process created significant security risks."

Then-President Obama created the U.S. Digital Service in 2014 to fix problems with the Healthcare.gov portal. Since then, the agency worked on other issues related to the federal government's technology footprint, including developing a tax filing portal to allow Americans to circumvent third-party companies and file directly with the IRS.
Between the lines: Tuesday's resignations were from engineers, data scientists, product managers and an IT department head.

"DOGE's actions firing technical experts, mishandling sensitive data, and breaking critical systems contradict their stated mission of 'modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,'" they wrote.

The other side: "These were full remote workers who hung Trans flags from their workplaces," DOGE spokesperson Katie Miller wrote on X.

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boognish_bear said:

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Good luck with that

NEW: The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that migrants who are in the country without legal status must register their information in a database that tracks them in an effort to "compel" self-deportation.

Follow live updates: https://t.co/bTOoZcwSEC

— ABC News (@ABC) February 25, 2025

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NEW: Despite the Trump administration informing federal agencies that responding to Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" email is voluntary, Musk is doubling down on his threats to federal workers, saying those who do not respond will be terminated.https://t.co/FBwh7viL7U

— ABC News (@ABC) February 25, 2025

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The federal workers I know at church are vexed about all this.

First, Musk says they have to do this. Second, many of their agency heads say they don't have to do this. Third, Trump says maybe or maybe not. Fourth, Musk says they have to do this.

Pure incompetent chaos.

Several of them voted for Trump and are complaining about the chaos.

All of them would like to be treated like human beings doing their jobs. They don't understand why the Musk Administration isn't treating them this way.

So, the idea is that the replies of these hundreds of thousands of workers will be fed into an AI program, which will decide their fate? All their performance evaluations, etc., wlll be irrelevant?

There's no excuse for treating people this way.

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If they're doing their jobs, what's the difficulty with mentioning 5 meaningful things they accomplished in an entire work week? Unless they're doing something other than their jobs.......

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Why does DOGE need to know these things? And I can think of many difficulties of sharing a number of different government activities to a non government agency. Intel, law enforcement, defense, etc. They have new bosses at the top. Let them do their job for their areas of responsibility.

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You are so overthinking this.

1) it's an opportunity for all federal employees to comply with a simple, legal, non-ideological task. Only a die-hard neverTrumper could contrive a reason NOT to reply.
2) it's an opportunity to test the theory that there are hundreds of thousands of civil servants working from home who are actually not working at their federal job at all, not even reading their emails.

Man, trust me, no reasonable bureaucrat would have a problem doing such a simple thing. There is literally no legal, professional, or security reason one cannot write 5 sentences which comply with the request, particularly when one's job is on the line. Hell a large number of them write tomes saying nothing all da, /every day.

And if 99% of the civil service complies, fine. what's the harm in proving they actually read their emails?

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NEW: Despite the Trump administration informing federal agencies that responding to Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" email is voluntary, Musk is doubling down on his threats to federal workers, saying those who do not respond will be terminated.https://t.co/FBwh7viL7U

— ABC News (@ABC) February 25, 2025

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The federal workers I know at church are vexed about all this.

First, Musk says they have to do this. Second, many of their agency heads say they don't have to do this. Third, Trump says maybe or maybe not. Fourth, Musk says they have to do this.

Pure incompetent chaos.

Several of them voted for Trump and are complaining about the chaos.

All of them would like to be treated like human beings doing their jobs. They don't understand why the Musk Administration isn't treating them this way.

So, the idea is that the replies of these hundreds of thousands of workers will be fed into an AI program, which will decide their fate? All their performance evaluations, etc., wlll be irrelevant?

There's no excuse for treating people this way.

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If they're doing their jobs, what's the difficulty with mentioning 5 meaningful things they accomplished in an entire work week? Unless they're doing something other than their jobs.......

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Why does DOGE need to know these things? And I can think of many difficulties of sharing a number of different government activities to a non government agency. Intel, law enforcement, defense, etc. They have new bosses at the top. Let them do their job for their areas of responsibility.

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You are so overthinking this.

1) it's an opportunity for all federal employees to comply with a simple, legal, non-ideological task. Only a die-hard neverTrumper could contrive a reason NOT to reply.
2) it's an opportunity to test the theory that there are hundreds of thousands of civil servants working from home who are actually not working at their federal job at all, not even reading their emails.

Man, trust me, no reasonable bureaucrat would have a problem doing such a simple thing. There is literally no legal, professional, or security reason one cannot write 5 sentences which comply with the request, particularly when one's job is on the line. Hell a large number of them write tomes saying nothing all da, /every day.

And if 99% of the civil service complies, fine. what's the harm in proving they actually read their emails?

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Ahem, we said 5 items and that’s only 4 https://t.co/UKYUZ2uiJI

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2025

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NEW: Despite the Trump administration informing federal agencies that responding to Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" email is voluntary, Musk is doubling down on his threats to federal workers, saying those who do not respond will be terminated.https://t.co/FBwh7viL7U

— ABC News (@ABC) February 25, 2025

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The federal workers I know at church are vexed about all this.

First, Musk says they have to do this. Second, many of their agency heads say they don't have to do this. Third, Trump says maybe or maybe not. Fourth, Musk says they have to do this.

Pure incompetent chaos.

Several of them voted for Trump and are complaining about the chaos.

All of them would like to be treated like human beings doing their jobs. They don't understand why the Musk Administration isn't treating them this way.

So, the idea is that the replies of these hundreds of thousands of workers will be fed into an AI program, which will decide their fate? All their performance evaluations, etc., wlll be irrelevant?

There's no excuse for treating people this way.

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If they're doing their jobs, what's the difficulty with mentioning 5 meaningful things they accomplished in an entire work week? Unless they're doing something other than their jobs.......

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Why does DOGE need to know these things? And I can think of many difficulties of sharing a number of different government activities to a non government agency. Intel, law enforcement, defense, etc. They have new bosses at the top. Let them do their job for their areas of responsibility.

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You are so overthinking this.

1) it's an opportunity for all federal employees to comply with a simple, legal, non-ideological task. Only a die-hard neverTrumper could contrive a reason NOT to reply.
2) it's an opportunity to test the theory that there are hundreds of thousands of civil servants working from home who are actually not working at their federal job at all, not even reading their emails.

Man, trust me, no reasonable bureaucrat would have a problem doing such a simple thing. There is literally no legal, professional, or security reason one cannot write 5 sentences which comply with the request, particularly when one's job is on the line. Hell a large number of them write tomes saying nothing all da, /every day.

And if 99% of the civil service complies, fine. what's the harm in proving they actually read their emails?

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Here's the guy running this.

Ahem, we said 5 items and that’s only 4 https://t.co/UKYUZ2uiJI

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2025

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