Musk has reportedly installed several allies in the Office of Personnel Management as he seeks to significant cut the federal workforce

Summary

Elon Musk and his allies have reportedly taken control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and bypassed officials to send a mass resignation email to over 2.3 million federal employees.

The email, titled “Fork in the Road,” offers buyouts to those who voluntarily resign, mirroring a similar approach Musk used at Twitter.

Musk has placed close associates in leadership positions at OPM, raising concerns over his growing influence in Trump’s administration.

Federal employees remain skeptical about the buyout’s legitimacy.

  • @givesomefucksEnglish
    23•5 hours ago

    There’s already a lawsuit

    The new legal challenge comes as the Trump administration has launched a multi-front effort to overhaul how the federal workforce operates, including initiatives to weaken federal workforce protections and to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs, among other actions.

    According to the new lawsuit, federal employees in recent days received emails from the email address [email protected] that purported to be running tests for a new “distribution and response list.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/federal-employees-email-system-privacy-concerns-lawsuit/index.html

    They didn’t even wait for the “fork” email…

    The part about metadata showing it’s not coming from OPM but private email servers would come out of discovery on that