Trump supports Musk when he penetrates the federal workforce with claims and threats

Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump secured Elon Musks demand that federal employees will explain their latest services by the end of Monday or to endanger that the government officials have been informed that compliance with Musks was voluntarily.

Confusion and anger about the situation created new legal disputes and wore turbulence within the federal employees.

“What he is doing French President Emmanuel Macron. “And then, if you do not answer, you are a kind of half -fired or released because many people do not answer because they don't even exist.”

The Republican President said Musk's Department of Government Efficiency found “hundreds of billions of dollars” when he suggested that the federal salary checks were not available. He presented no evidence of his claims.

But even when Trump and Musk urged their case, the office of the personnel management informed the agency's executives that their workforce did not have to answer on Monday after the deadline of 11:59 p.m. applied for anonymity. Discuss internal matters.

Shortly after 7 p.m. EST – hours after OPM agencies instructed the answers that the answers were optionally – once again threatened Musk in a contribution to X, its social media platform. He wrote: “Subject to the president's discretion, you will give you another chance. The failure to react a second time leads to a termination. ”

The contradictory guidelines led to the spread of different advice for federal employees, depending on where they work. Some were instructed to answer the request to answer five things that they did last week, others were announced that this was optional, and others were instructed not to answer at all.

Lawyers represented unions, companies, veterans and nature conservation organizations submitted an updated lawsuit before the Federal Supreme Court in California and argued that Musk had violated the law by threatening mass shots.

The lawsuit cited by the State Democracy Defense Fund described it as “one of the most massive employment fraud in the history of this country”.

Anna Kelly, a deputy press spokesman for the White House, criticized the legal dispute with the statement: “In the time when these employees with taxpayers have needed financed salaries, they could have briefly withdrawn their successes to their managers, as is common in the Private sector, 100 times over. “

Musk leads Trump's efforts to overtake and reduce the federal government. You have asked the employees to resign, to rely on the instructed agencies, to take a probationary employee and to stop working in some agencies.

There was a setback for protests in Washington and within the government. The special consultant's office, a watchdog for the federal employee, said on Monday that the release of several probation workers could be illegal. Trump tries to relieve Hampton Dellinger's leader in one case that has reached The Supreme Court of the United States.

Dellinger asked the US Merit Systems Protection Board to stop the layoffs of six employees, but suggested that many other employees should also be protected to lose their work.

There are also signs that Muschus tests the limits of its influence. Some administrative officers – including some of the strictest allies of Trump, such as the FBI director Kash Patel – told the employees.

“When and if further information is required, we coordinate the answers. Please stop all the answers, ”Patel wrote in an e -mail.

It was the most important public deviation between the billionaire and the cabinet guides approved by the Senate, who were otherwise enthusiastic about the fulfillment of the goals of Musk.

Trump released the idea that there was any kind of separation in which his most powerful consultant was involved.

“You don't mean that in any way with Elon,” he said, adding that “everyone thought it was a rather brilliant idea.”

The office for personnel management, which acts as a personnel authority for the federal government, refused to comment on Monday, while Musk continued to threaten layoffs.

“Those who do not take these e -mail will soon promote their career elsewhere,” he posted on X.

The latest turbulence began on the weekend when Trump on his social media website “Elon does a great job, but I would like to see that he would be becoming more aggressive.”

Musk followed by the statement: “All federal employees will soon receive an e -mail in which he is asked to understand what they did last week. The guideline repeated how he managed his own companies.

The OPM then sent its own request.

“Please respond to this e -mail with about 5 balls of what you achieved last week and CC your manager,” says the message. However, it said nothing about the potential that employees were released due to non -compliance. The deadline was listed on Monday as 3:59 p.m. EST.

There was Fast resistance from several important US agencies Under the leadership of the President's loyalists – including the Foreign Ministry, the Homeland Security and the Pentagon – their employees did not appeal to over the weekend. The legislator of both large political parties said that Musk's mandate could possibly be illegal.

The Ministry of Justice employees were announced on Monday morning in an e -mail that they do not have to answer the request “due to the confidential and sensitive character of the department”.

However, the employees of the US law firm in Washington have been instructed to react “in general” and to leave out case-specific or otherwise confidential information. In an e -mail displayed by the Associated Press, lawyers received instructions on how to answer the number of court hearings you have attended, the accused those who have been answered by you or other tasks that you have released.

The employees of the educational department were instructed on Monday morning. “The e -mail is legitimate and the employees should answer,” wrote Rachel Oglesby, head of the department. She added that “superiors evaluate the superiors and non -considerations”.

Thousands of government employees were forced in the first month of the federal assistant – either by discharge or by a “pushed resignation”, either by being released or being “resigned” Trump's second term. There is no official number for the entire shots or layoffs, but no official number The AP has evaluated Hundreds of thousands of employees who are affected. Many work outside of Washington.

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Associated Press Writers Steve Peoples in New York, Eric Tucker, Amanda Seitz, Byron Tau, Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Perrone, Alanna Durkin Richer and Tara Copp in Washington and Valerie Gonzalez in Mcallen, Texas, have contributed to this report.