More than 20 civil services employees left a billionaire of Trump’s adviser to Elon Men’s Department for the Efficiency of the Government (Doge) from the billionaire of Trump’s advisor Elon, saying that they refuse to use their technical expertise for “dismantling critical public services”.
“We swore we would serve the American people and support the oath of the Constitution through the Presidential Administrations,” 21 employees wrote in a joint letter of resignation, whose copy received Associated Press. “However, it became clear that we could no longer honor those obligations.”
Employees also warned that many of those who had enrolled in Musk to help him reduce the size of the federal government under the administration of President Donald Trump were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task.
The massive resignation of engineers, scientists with data and product manager comes in the midst of the noise of court challenges to clean the federal workforce led by Musk and Trump, the purity that sought to stop, stop or rest efforts to firing or forcing thousands of government workers outside jobs.
“We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise the basic government systems, threaten the sensitive information of Americans or dismantle critical public services,” they wrote.
The White House did not immediately respond to a comment request on Tuesday morning.
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The staff who resigned worked for what was once known as the Digital Service of the United States. The USD was founded more than ten years ago to improve veterans services, and this helped creating a free government management portal, so tax fillers did not have to go through third parties like Trabotax.
All those who resigned on Tuesday previously held more roles in such technological companies as Google and Amazon and in their resignation wrote that they had joined the Government from a sense of duty to public services.
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There is increasing aversion against Elon Musk, and agencies of US government agencies, from rejection of civil servants to threats to close the Ministry of Education. We watch President Donald Trump strengthened by an unpaid billionaire department of the Government Efficiency or Doge – and why some critics call his actions to the constitutional crisis.
Hair effort and burning musk leading from what Trump initially planned during the 2024 presidential campaign. Doge, the cinema of Musk’s favorite Cripto currency coin, was initially presented as a blue-playing commission that would exist outside the Government.
Main lawyers from several countries headed by democratic officials filed a lawsuit, claiming that the reach illegally approached confidential information. On Monday, in connection with the lawsuit filed by unions representing federal workers, the judge agreed to temporarily ban the Department of Education and the Office for Managing Staff from the Detection of Records containing sensitive personal information to Doge representatives. US District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, md.
Despite its name, Doge is not the official government department, which is traditionally established by the congress. Trump and Musk said “hundreds of millions of dollars are already saved but have not provided detailed support for these claims.
Doge on Monday posted an updated list of nearly 2,300 contracts that have been terminated in the Federal Government in recent weeks. Data published on Doge’s “Receipt Wall” show that more than one -third of the termination of the contract, 794, are expected to not save. This is usually because the total value of the contract has already been fully mandatory, which means that the government has legal conditions to spend funds for goods or services he has bought, and in many cases he has already done so.
“It’s like depriving of an ammunition used after it was recorded when there was nothing left in it. It does not achieve any aim of politics,” said Charles Tiefer, a retired professor of rights to Baltimore and an expert on the Government contract. “Their break up so much contract is meaningless obviously not to achieve anything to save money.”
Federal workers experienced a greater confusion when Musk demanded that he explain his recent achievements by the end of Monday or the abolition of the risk. Even as it happened, the staff management office informed the leaders of the agency that their workers were not obliged to respond to the deadline of 23:59 ET on Monday.
“” Move quickly and break things “can be acceptable to someone who owns a company and has a risk. And if things don’t go well, it’s a shame separates. But when you break things in the Government, you break things that break the things you break up The violations of things belong to people who have not signed up for it, “said Cordell Schachter, who until last month was the CEO of Information in American To the Ministry of Transport.
‘Significant security risks’
The day after Trump’s inauguration, 21 employees wrote, they were invited to a series of interviews that announced the secret and devastating work of Doge. According to employees, people who carry the Visitors of the White House, some of whom would not give their names, have grilled non -partisan employees about their qualifications and politics.
“Several of these surveyors refused to identify, asking questions about political loyalty, they tried to break their colleagues and show a limited technical ability,” employees wrote in their letter. “This procedure created significant security risks.”
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Earlier this month, about 40 employees in the office were discharged. The shooting has applied a devastating blow to the Government’s ability to manage and protect their own technological imprint, they wrote.
“These highly qualified civil servants have worked on the modernization of social security, veteran services, tax submission, health care, disaster, student assistance and other critical services,” the resignation letter said. “Their removal threatens millions of Americans who rely on these services daily.
Out of 40 people released earlier this month, only one was an engineer-formed and politically active employee named Jonathan Kamens, who in an interview with AP said he believed he had been discharged for the public approval of Vice President Kamal Harris, and Democrat on his personal blog and was critical of male in conversations with colleagues.
