Musk has reportedly installed several allies in the Office of Personnel Management as he seeks to significant cut the federal workforce

Summary

Elon Musk and his allies have reportedly taken control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and bypassed officials to send a mass resignation email to over 2.3 million federal employees.

The email, titled “Fork in the Road,” offers buyouts to those who voluntarily resign, mirroring a similar approach Musk used at Twitter.

Musk has placed close associates in leadership positions at OPM, raising concerns over his growing influence in Trump’s administration.

Federal employees remain skeptical about the buyout’s legitimacy.

  • That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
    52·
    16 hours ago

    They made up an email address, claimed it was OPM, then spent an afternoon pretending to be official between that and the fork in the road email.

    Isn’t that a crime? Pretending to be a federal agency when you’re not?

    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
      301·
      14 hours ago

      Oh, hi! Glad to see you’re awake. Here’s some coffee. Let me explain what happened in the last six months while you were out… To much to explain. Let me sum up.

      Trump is a convicted felon at least 30 times over, was elected to office, then sprung the insurrectionists who helped him. He’s broken the law dozens of times in and out of office without consequence, and packed the supreme court with lackeys. Congress is controlled by his other lackeys.

      At this point, there is ample evidence that the fact it was a crime has no bearing on whether or not they will fail to get their desired outcome. Playing by the rules will only get your ass whooped and tossed aside.

      Our situation requires grit and willingness to sacrifice in solidarity in order to regain our country.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      311·
      15 hours ago

      There’s already a lawsuit

      The new legal challenge comes as the Trump administration has launched a multi-front effort to overhaul how the federal workforce operates, including initiatives to weaken federal workforce protections and to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs, among other actions.

      According to the new lawsuit, federal employees in recent days received emails from the email address [email protected] that purported to be running tests for a new “distribution and response list.”

      https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/federal-employees-email-system-privacy-concerns-lawsuit/index.html

      They didn’t even wait for the “fork” email…

      The part about metadata showing it’s not coming from OPM but private email servers would come out of discovery on that