State Department tells Elon Musk to shove it
Elon Musk has sent an email to every federal government employee, demanding that they each reply with bullet points about the work they’ve done over the past week. Musk then bragged on Twitter that anyone who fails to reply will be fired. This is obviously legally unenforceable (even before getting to the part where Musk isn’t President), and there’s already widespread pushback.
The leadership at the State Department has told its employees not to reply to Musk’s email. This means an entire federal government agency is telling Musk to take his attack on the federal government and shove it.
Anyone who’s “fired” by Musk over this email is going to be able to get the courts to reinstate their job pretty quickly. The real upshot is that Musk has spent a month incompetently failing to make much headway, and getting shot down in court repeatedly. Earlier today Trump made a post whining about how Musk isn’t being aggressive enough. Now Musk has responded with this desperate email stunt, which merely sets him up for more failure. Musk keeps going out further on a limb. How much longer before it snaps and Trump fires him?
