Elon Musk claims that federal employees have 48 hours to explain recent work or resignation

Elon Musk he tweetat On Saturday that federal workers will soon receive an Email “the request to understand what they did last week”. Conformable New York TimesThe Email from the Staff Management Office was addressed to agencies throughout the Federal Government that after -FBI, the State Department and others, with a deadline for response up to 23:59 PM and Monday.

However, the message did not have a detail of Musk’s tweet, according to orWhere did he say, “The failure to answer will be taken as a resignation,” they said that a number of lawyers would be illegal. The Washington Post rEPORTS These experts said that “he can ask some beneficiaries to violate federal laws”, and Sam Bagestos, a law professor of the University of Michigan, quoted by The orHe said: “There is a zero base in the public service system for this.”

The leader of the Hakeem Jeffries minority minorities said in a statement On Sunday that “Elon Musk traumatizes federal workers, children and their families. He has no legal authority to make his last requirements. “

The stuntman is another echo of Musk’s approach after taking Twitter, with requests to review the engineer’s code and said he did not respond to an Email will be considered as a resignation. On hundreds of tweets posted on Saturday and early Sunday, Musk – which may or may not lead the “Government Efficiency Department” (Doge), in addition to its various companies – claimedWithout presenting evidence, to root their fraud and employees who do not work.

The leaders of at least some of the departments such as the FBI and the State Department, would have told their workers to wait for guidance to answer, while those Post Reports that the director of the Cyber ​​Security and Security Agency in infrastructure, Bridget Bean, told the staff to comply with the “valid request”.

Trade unions such as the American Federation of Government employees and the National Treasury Union, they told the employees “not to answer, not yet,” “ Axios write. CNN reporter Said Pete Muntean The National Association for Air Traffic Controllers called “E -Email a unnecessary distraction to a fragile system.”