Washington, DC – Democrats in the Congress are angry about Elon Musk’s e -Mail to federal employees They ask to mention five things that they have achieved in a week, where a representative says that the requirements of the Doge Chief are “illegal” and another claim that Musk has no idea what he is doing. “
“It is only controversial because it is against the law, and we are a country of laws, so you just have to follow the law, “said Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass. Fox News Digital told.” The Bottom Line is Elon Musk And Trump doesn’t seem like to follow the law, because you and me expect them to follow. “
At the leadership of Musk, the Office of Personnel Management (OpM) sent an e -mail entitled: “What did you do last week?” To federal employees. The message called on employees to submit five performance or to be termination last week.
The laws spoke with Fox News Digital about Doge. (Fox News Digital)
In response, various leaders of federal agencies, Including the US Department of Health and Human ServicesEmployees advised that compliance with the e -mail was not necessary.
For many, the e -mail represented which, according to them, is the negative negation of the new government for the law and the value of federal employees.
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CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center on February 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
This week, the American Federation of Federal Workers and various other groups launched a lawsuit against the OPMclaim that the office cannot dismiss employees who do not meet the requirements of the E -mail.
Fox News Digital spoke with Democrats and Republicans from the house and the Senate to ask why the E -mail became so controversial.
“Who is Elon Musk to send something like that? “Said Rep. Jesus Garcia, D-Onlinois.
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“Someone who has not been screened or who did not come before the congress who tries to intimidate people to do things they don’t want to do. It is illegal. It is probably unconstitutional,” he continued. “And that’s why employees push back.”
Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, said that according to her, “It is clear that Elon Musk has no idea what he is doing.”
Balint gives a victory speech on the election evening on November 8, 2022, in Burlington, Vermont, after he was chosen as Vermont’s first wife and the first openly gay to represent Vermont in the congress. (AP/Lisa Rathke)
“He has no idea, he is incompetent,” Balint said. “He sends e-mails that contradict each other, sometimes within a 24-hour period. He sends information that contradicts the people who has appointed Trump to be cabinet secretaries. So I think the kind of this mysticism around him is shown that they are actually just an illusion.”
Musk called the E -Mail A “PulseControle” To see if assumed government employees collected fraudulent salary without actually working. President Donald Trump Supported the message and said it was “great” and that if you don’t answer the e -mail “, you will be fired”.
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President Donald Trump gives comments during a cabinet meeting in the White House on 26 February 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
Washington State Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal Said that the consequences of musk and doge someone who does not respond to e -mail would be considerable.
“The destruction that it would cause people not to answer e -mail and that is termination is extremely extreme for Americans in this country,” she told Fox News Digital. “If people cannot control air traffic in the air, it makes Americans unsafe. If veterans have no staff to actually give them benefits, and federal employees are fired in our national parks, and Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security means that average Americans do not get their checks.”
“This is not a software company that you can blow up and nobody notices it,” she continued. “This is the federal government that offers critical benefits to the American people everywhere.”
Jayapal said that the consequences of Musk and Doge that someone fires who do not respond to e -mail would be important. (Getty Images)
Offering a slightly different take, Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Or., Said that the e-mail was an example of “Cancel Culture”, and that the goal of Musk was to have “federal employees who are professionals, are being replaced by loyal minions that people will not serve.”
“His e -mail was all over the Cancel cultureCanceling professionals in the government, providing good services and replacing loyalists who are not interested in retaining the vision of our ‘we’ people ‘democracy, “he said.
In the meantime, Republicans stood firmly behind Doge and said that the E -mail from Musk was a completely reasonable request.
“I think we should be very, very grateful for what Musk does,” Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, to Fox News Digital. “We have the most deep -rooted bureaucracy throughout world history, and if we actually go back against waste, fraud and abuse, you have to do things a little differently.”
Rep. Chip Roy speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol Building on January 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
“Federal employees ask a simple question:” What did you do today? What have you achieved last week? ” I think it’s about as simple as it gets, “he went on. “I am very happy that he does it. I think every employee who did not respond to him for the first time must be fired, but they are merciful and give them a second chance.”
“The bottom line is that everyone who works for the government must respond, “said Rep. Chip RoyR-Texas.
“I understand why it is disturbing if it is not the way things were done, “he added.” But it is the president who mentions the shots, and the president repeated yesterday that he thought it was important for the people who work for him, who work on the president by the government to respond to what they do. “
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Donald Trump, left, and Elon Musk, right (Getty Images)
Roy noted that he believed that Musk “did great work with doge” and that the average American understands the e -mail, “because they should definitely answer what they do in their real work.”
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“The president has the ability and determination to decide whether people maintain their work and do the work they have to do and they are hired,” he explains. “It is a bit of a shock to send to the system because it forces people to do what they should do completely along the branches of the government.”
Fox News Digital reached the Doge spokesperson for the White House for comment, but did not hear back per press.
