Washington – Three sources with knowledge of the system say they will determine whether they need those jobs last week, as to what kind of work they did to government employees about the work they did. Answer to an email to government officials about what is being supplied for.
The information goes to LLM (Large Language Model), an advanced AI system that examines a huge amount of textual data for understanding, generating and processing human language, the source said. An AI system determines whether someone’s job is mission critical or not.
The U.S. Human Resources Management email agency was sent to federal workers on Saturday shortly after Musk wrote in a post on X. Failure to respond is considered a resignation. ”
The OPM email did not mention the threat of resignation, but said: CC manager with 5 bullets of what you achieved last week. Do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. The deadline is 11:59pm EST this Monday. ”
The reason the email did not request links or attachments was because of plans to send the information to the AI system, sources said.
Requests for comments from OPM regarding whether humans would be involved in reviewing responses were not immediately answered. The White House declined to comment.
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In an email to the Workforce on Monday, the Department of Justice said in a meeting with the inter-ministerial highest human capital officers council, OPM notified that employees’ responses to the email were voluntary. I stated. OPM also made it clear that despite what Musk posted, not responding to emails is not equivalent to resigning, the email said.
It is unclear how many people responded to the email.
Musk complained late Monday about his backlash against the orders on his social media platform.
“The criteria for passing the test were to type in and send a few words, so email requests were totally trivial! How are your taxes being spent? Is that?” he wrote.
In a subsequent tweet, he appears to indicate that he can send a second email to government workers who do not respond to the first email.
“According to the president’s discretion, they are given another opportunity. Failure to respond for a second time will lead to a fire,” he wrote.
The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding the post.
The first directive was praised Monday by President Donald Trump, even after it was sent from unions, workers and even several agencies.
“I thought it was great,” Trump told reporters in the oval office. There he met with French President Emmanuel Macron.
“We have people who don’t show up for work, and no one knows if they’ll work for the government. By asking the question, ‘Tell me what you did this week,’ he does. That’s what you say is actually working. , if you don’t answer, you’re kind of semi-fire or fired,” he said.
“There were a lot of geniuses in sending it,” Trump said. “If people don’t respond, it’s very possible that there’s no one like that or they’re not working.”
A coalition of unions and groups fighting the layoffs of the Trump administration’s massive probation workers accused the efforts of illegal. They revised the lawsuit against the U.S. Personnel Management over the weekend, adding a claim involving an OPM email overseeing workers to justify workers.
The lawsuit accuses the administration of not following the proper procedures for such orders and should be voided by a judge.
“The mass shooting ordered by the OPM is illegal and betrays the trust of countless federal employees. Federal workers at work must justify themselves by listing five achievements. A patriot request only adds shaming to the injury, which is against the law, too,” attorney Norm Eisen said in a statement on behalf of the plaintiff.
Musk is entrusted with reducing the size of the government from Trump, and the email is seen as part of his push to cut the federal workforce by up to 10%.
Some agencies, including those led by Trump’s allies, have told employees to ignore the order.
An email seen by NBC News found that Department of Justice employees were notified early Monday that they would not have to respond to messages. “Due to the confidential and sensitive nature of the department’s work, DOJ employees do not need to respond to emails from OPM. If they have already responded to this email, no further action is required. .”
FBI Director Kash Patel told employees to “suspend responses” over the weekend in emails, saying his agency would do its own review. Employees from the State Department, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency and the Director of National Intelligence were also told not to respond to emails.
The Ministry of Agriculture will also send employees an unsigned email to inform them that the email response is “voluntary and unnecessary.”
The email was also sent to an unknown amount of judicial branch employees, including judges and court staff. A spokesperson for federal courts in Manhattan and the Northern District of Illinois confirmed to NBC News that “some” people have received the messages.
Julie Hodeck, a spokesman for the Northern District of Illinois, also confirmed the email, and the court’s Supreme Court Justice and Clerk said, “Because we are judicial employees, our policies and procedures are in the US. He said he communicated with staff that he was compliant with the Judicial Council. District Court HR Handbook.”
A spokesperson for the Southern District of New York said there were personnel instructed not to respond to emails.
On Monday, managers within the Environmental Protection Agency sent employee model responses to an email to facilitate it.
“In sympathy for the staff, they sent examples,” said one agency employee who shared the responses of the two managers themselves on NBC News. Employees asked NBC not to publish the manager’s response entirely due to fear of retaliation.
Department of Health and Human Services officials and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have instructed employees to respond to the deadline. HHS notified employees of the changed guidance for the OPM later on Monday, warning that any information they choose to share can be read by malicious foreign actors.
An email sent to Department of Transport employees and obtained by NBC News has instructed them to respond to OPM’s weekend emails asking for five bullet points of their work. The message also asked employees to exclude categorized information from their responses. Transport Secretary Sean Duffy embraced the challenge himself in a social media post.
It appears that Musk follows the same playbook he used when he bought Twitter.
Musk began his tenure with a massive layoff, asking employees to commit to “very hardcore” jobs via “A Fork in the Road” or fired emails. The email subject line is the same as the email sent to federal employees from the Human Resources Administration, which provides the acquisition in January. Approximately 75,000 federal employees have signed the contracts.
Twitter employees who stayed were asked to print out a page of code they had written since last month and prepare to personally present their work to Musking. Code reviews reportedly were abandoned, and instead, managers were asked to rank employees, according to The Verge.
Musk and Kuzi’s access to government data and information became a central point of friction between the group and its critics. In at least 11 cases, plaintiffs allege that Doge disregards data and privacy laws and regulations. Some of the lawsuits refer to allegations that Doge uses artificial intelligence to analyze and process government data. The Washington Post reported in February that Doge was using artificial intelligence to analyze spending in the education sector, citing two people familiar with the project.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) promoted Musk’s work on Monday with comments that appear to confirm the AI report.
“Elon cracked the code. He’s currently in the agency. He’s created these algorithms that are constantly raw data. Get this information, Washington.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of R-Alaska had some harsh words about how Doge was run. Their services and tenure. ”
“A little bit of humanity and dignity in the process is what many federal employees in Alaska want, and I don’t think it’s asking for too much,” Murkowski said.
Doge’s work led to criticism and cases that workers must be rehired after being excluded from important jobs. On Monday, two people familiar with the issue said the government is reviving employees in the Food and Drug and Medical Devices sector after dozens were fired as part of Doge’s cost-cutting initiative. .
The Medical Devices Department is responsible for approving and monitoring the safety of a wide range of products, from X-ray devices to surgical implants. The layoffs took place earlier this month and included doctors and cybersecurity experts.
Several of these employees received phone calls or emails over the weekend to notify them that their termination had been cancelled. It is unclear how many employees have returned their jobs and how many will ultimately return.
The administration has faced similar problems this month, relinquishing nuclear safety officials.
In Friday’s ruling, a federal judge in New York said Doge made a provisional injunction, except for access to the sensitive Treasury system, after the state coalition presented evidence that employees were not following appropriate safety protocols. It has been published.
In a scathing ruling, US District Judge Janet Vargas blows up Kuzi’s “a ‘a ‘a ‘a ‘a ‘a ‘a ‘a ‘a slumber’ approach’, saying that the coalition “will disclose confidential financial information if no injunctive relief is granted.’ We have established that there is a realistic risk.”
