The non-political heads of at least four agencies (including NASA) have instructed federal workers to NOT respond to Elon's "Part II" email. Several USDC Judges have ruled that OPM / DOGE / Musk lacks any lawful authority to make these demands.
And on X-itter yesterday, Musk said consequences for failure to reply will "vary by agency" -- implying he thinks the directive is mandatory. Multiple nationwide TROs have held the opposite. Here's the latest -- do go read it all:
. . .Many Agency Heads Openly Defy Musk. . . .
A senior career official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services who retired on Friday, Jeffrey Grant, sent a scathing open letter to the Department of Health and Human Services leader who executed the DOGE-directed firing of 82 of the 600 operations workers Grant managed.
“As a career federal official and senior human capital officer, you had to know that what you were doing was wrong,” Grant wrote to Jeffery Anoka, acting chief human capital officer at the department. “If you were ordered to write those letters, you should have refused to follow that unlawful directive.”
Grant said Anoka’s accusations in the firing letters that the terminated workers are “not fit” for continued employment because they were underperforming and lack required skills and ability are “factually incorrect on all counts.” A department spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. . . .
Separately, Elon also welcomed a fourteenth child over the weekend -- with yet another former employee -- from another one of his companies.
I really don't much care, such things are a "personal choice" between adults, in my view (and all of them know about the "other baby mamas") but it is surprising and perhaps. . . to me, ironic. . . that Trump's purportedly evangelical x-tian base is as quiet as the tomb -- about these polyamorous, out of wedlock ways. He has (by my amateurish count) at least four concurrent "life partners" (all significantly younger than he is) -- with whom he's birthed these now 14 offspring.
Whatever.
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