New FBI chef Kash Patel defied the massive e -mail from Elon Musk to federal employees when he ordered agents to ignore Doge's latest efficiency.
Patel instructed agents at the desk to ignore an E -mail Musk to employees earlier on Saturday, entitled: “What did you do last week?”
Musk's E -mail ordered employees to answer the message with five bullets with details about all their performance at work in the past week and to CC in their manager.
Not long after, Patel rejected Musk's memo with his own message, making it clear that the FBI is in charge of all our assessment processes and carries out assessments in accordance with FBI procedures. ”
'When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the answers. Pause any reactions for now, “he wrote.
The interference of Patel is one of his first movements such as the new head of the FBI and offers a glimpse of potential gorges in the Maga world while Musk continues to tear the federal government.
When he sent the original e -mail earlier on Saturday, Musk also went to his X platform to threaten employees who do not answer him with termination.
It is still to be seen whether Musk will try to make his threat to dismiss FBI agents who follow Patel's guidelines, making the two Trump insiders against each other. The FBI did not respond immediately to request for comments.
New FBI chef Kash Patel, depicted with the baby Mama Ashley St. Clair from Elon Musk during the inauguration
Musk sent a massive e -mail to federal employees on Saturday and ordered them to describe what they have achieved at work last week and threatened those who ignore him with termination
Musk's e -mail was titled 'What did you do last week?'
Shortly after Musk sent his e -mail, Patel stepped in and ordered his agents at the FBI to ignore the prompt of Musk, despite his threat of termination
Musk's e-mail to all federal agents who demanded that they describe their working weeks to him after President Trump ordered him to be 'more aggressive' with his cost-saving measures.
“In accordance with the instructions of President @realdonaldrump, all federal employees will soon receive an e -mail in which they will be asked to understand what they did last week,” he wrote on X.
“Not responding will be taken as a dismissal,” added the Space X founder.
It is unclear whether this threat can be legally maintained or whether it violates American labor laws.
Many federal employees are also trade union, which usually offers extra security measures when it comes to forcing the employer to be 'just a cause'.
Moreover, many trade unions have already started suing the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) and the Trump administration for the Bulldoz by departments and influencing the jobs of many federal employees.
When Trump and Musk tried to put 2,200 USAID employees on paid leave, two trade unions complained and won a temporarily limiting order – which has since been reversed.
Judge Carl J. Nichols, who was appointed by Trump in 2019, indicated on 7 February a temporary house ban that the President blocked to place 2,200 USAID employees on paid leave.
The impasse between Musk and Patel came after President Trump Musk instructed to be 'more aggressive' with his Doge cost savings
Doge has demolished tens of billion dollars from the federal budget in the first month in power, so that the opinions in Washington and the entire nation are strongly distributed
Two trade unions associated with the agency had filed a last-minute lawsuit in an attempt to save it after Trump argued that the overseas auxiliary agency is not a valuable use of tax money and wanted to dismantle it.
They claim that the government violated the US constitution and that USAID employees had damage to the burden, but Nichols wrote on Friday in a decision that they had not proven that USAID employees are irreparably damaged.
Nichols, however, also noted that this could change in the future if Trump and Musk's Doings take place.
As the purification of many federal jobs continues, Musk said he would look at the X proposal of James Fishback of a 'doge dividend', that each American household would give a $ 5,000 stimulus, saved the money by the department of the billionaire.
Musk replied that he was 'curious', but said he 'will contact the president'.
Doge has cut down tens of billion dollars from the federal budget in the first month, so that the opinions in Washington are strongly distributed, since some people praise the cost -saving measures, while others claim that the widespread cuts have also influenced the required work.
While some have been picked up about a few cuts, including the dismissing of a number of energy workers department that supervise the nuclear arsenal of America, that Trump quickly reversed, Maga Republicans say that other financing was a huge waste.
In the midst of the entire series of cutbacks on other agencies, Musk said he would 'check with (Trump)' about an idea that a 'doge dividend' of $ 5,000 would send to each American taxpayer, part of the $ 55 billion he would claims to have saved that far
In one of the most shocking announcements, DOGE said last week that it cut at least $ 1.9 billion in misplaced funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and said that the government of former President Joe Biden was fault.
“These funds were reserved for the management of financial services, but were no longer necessary,” Dog wrote in a post to X, adding that the funds were primarily lost because of a 'broken process'.
“The funds are now available for other use by the treasury,” the department said.
This week, Doge claimed that so far it has saved $ 55 billion from the federal budget and has no signs of delay.
Doge claims that the savings were found by a combination of detecting and removing fraud, canceling contracts and lease contracts and selling assets.
The savings were usually made in the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Ministry of Education, the Office of Personnel Management, the Ministry of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
