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Salon
Salon
Politics
Alex Galbraith

Feds to staff: Ignore Elon

Even Trump Cabinet pick-led agencies are tiring of Elon Musk's hack-and-slash tactics. 

Several heads of federal agencies have instructed their staff to ignore a letter from the Office of Personnel Management asking them to justify their jobs. The letter — sent late Saturday and seemingly spearheaded by Musk and his quasi-governmental Department of Government Efficiency operation— asked federal employees to share a rundown of their work in the last week. 

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