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After Trump instructed that Elon Musk ought to get extra aggressive with federal employees, Musk despatched an electronic mail to each federal employee demanding to know what they achieved final week. Musk informed the employees that failure to answer to the e-mail could be thought of their resignation.
Home Democrats pounced and demanded that 24 federal companies inform their staff to disregard Musk’s electronic mail, which left the Trump administration with a selection of both supporting Musk or supporting the folks working govt department companies and within the course of revealing that Musk has no energy.
The Trump administration selected to humiliate Musk.
Hadas Gold of CNN posted on X:
OPM formally notified HR chiefs in any respect companies right now that the “what did you do final week” electronic mail is voluntary and failure to reply does NOT equal resignation. That is per an electronic mail I obtained despatched to DOJ HR officers.
In different phrases, Elon Musk doesn’t have the facility and authorized authority to make calls for on federal employees and fireplace them.
Home Democrats demanded that Trump put a leash on Musk, and his administration did.
The subsequent time Elon Musk tries to drag an unlawful stunt like this, federal employees may have a greater understanding of the bounds of Musk’s energy.
Elon Musk’s electronic mail was in violation of the Appointments Clause of the Structure.
Article II Sec. 2 Clause 2 of the Structure states:
He shall have Energy, by and with the Recommendation and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, offered two thirds of the Senators current concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Recommendation and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, different public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court docket, and all different Officers of america, whose Appointments should not herein in any other case offered for, and which shall be established by Legislation: however the Congress might by Legislation vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they suppose correct, within the President alone, within the Courts of Legislation, or within the Heads of Departments.
Musk shouldn’t be a legally appointed and Senate-confirmed head of a division. Legally, he has no means to rent and fireplace anybody who’s a federal worker.
The Trump administration uncovered Elon Musk as having no actual energy.
Musk ended up humiliated by his tough-talking electronic mail.
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