Employees of the Department of Justice Seniors told the staff on Monday that they should not be answered by an email sent on Saturday that they were instructing them to document, at risk of losing their job – Five accomplishments From last week, according to internal emails shared with CBS News.
Elon Musk published on Saturday on his social media site, X, that the lack of response to the email of the staff management office would be considered as a resignation. Email had the subject line “What did you do last week?”
Although Musk, the world’s richest person, has been a Member of President Trump to oversee drastic federal layoffs, the extensive justice department is the last agency to tell employees that they do not take into account the demand.
“DOJ employees do not need to respond to the OPM email. If you have already responded to the email, no more actions are needed,” said Suzanne Belle, Deputy Director and Chief of Staff of the Department of Justice, in an email of Monday morning. A similar language was used in a message to the staff sent on Monday by another Justice Department official.
At least one Justice Department Agency had already directed employees Do not answer in the email OPM. FBI director Kash Patel said in an email to the staff on Saturday that they should “pause answers”.
“FBI staff may have received an email from the OPM requesting information,” Patel wrote in a message obtained by CBS News. “The FBI, through the director’s office, is in charge of all our review processes and will review according to the FBI procedures.”
The State Department, the National Security Department and the Pentagon also addressed employees who do not take into account the email.
The Pentagon also published in X that, “the Department of Defense is responsible for reviewing the performance of its staff and will carry out any review according to its own procedures.”
