Summary
Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department, and Pentagon, are refusing to comply with Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees report their weekly accomplishments to him or risk termination.
The directive, backed by Trump, has sparked chaos, legal concerns, and union threats of lawsuits. Some agencies issued conflicting guidance, while lawmakers from both parties questioned the move’s legality.
Musk falsely claims widespread fraud in government payrolls and has provided no evidence.
Unions demand the request’s withdrawal and an apology.
Everything that Musk has “done” with DOGE has just been cowardly agency heads taking his recommendation.
Fascists will keep trying shit till they can’t get away with it. We should have drawn the line earlier, but at least they’re drawing it now.
Making people fill out TPS reports… Musk is worse than bill lumberg
What cost-cutting? Stop lending them credibility, assholes.
You know what’s really inefficient? Making a bunch of people write additional weekly reports on their work on top of the already significant documentation that goes on in the federal government. It’s not free or instant to write these, and could reasonably lower the amount of actual productivity by diverting smart people from their main objectives to write extra reports for this dumbass.
Redundancy and resiliency is what you want in government (actually most systems involving humans)—not efficiency.
We need robust service that can continue to provide service even when parts of it fail. That’s worth paying for.
Even with something like an F1 car where engineers are keenly aware of efficiency, efficiency isn’t holy above all else. If it was, you wouldn’t care about the pilot’s safely, engines blowing themselves up when slightly out of spec, or the ability to race in all the races of the season—all you’d care about is speed.
Not only that, a lot of the stuff they do likely is also sensitive and they are instructing people to just send details via email?
That’s the whole point. They don’t want government efficiency. They want government destruction.
