President Donald Trump backed Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent work or risk getting fired, even as OPM said compliance is voluntary.
The memo, published just a few hours before the midnight deadline, says responses should be sent to both OPM and agency leadership.
Trump’s billionaire enforcer told federal workers they needed to justify themselves—or else. Then the administration changed its mind.
Musk warned that federal employees who failed to reply to his cross-agency productivity audit email were given “another chance” by Trump.
Our chief said it was mandatory. Then OPM said it became voluntary. Then I guess Trump just told us it was mandatory again,” a longtime employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs
The deadline given to federal employees by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Elon Musk over the weekend is quickly approaching, but widespread confusion remains as agencies tell workers ...