Musk and allies have reportedly seized key HR office - and skipped past officials to send mass resignation email
Musk and allies have reportedly seized key HR office - and skipped past officials to send mass resignation email
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Musk has reportedly installed several allies in the Office of Personnel Management as he seeks to significant cut the federal workforce. Elon Musk continues to assert his power and influence with President Donald Trump, and a new report details how the tech mogul and his allies have taken “control” of the Office of Personal Management and skipped past key officials to release an email asking federal workers to resign.
More than 2.3 million government employees were sent an email last week offering buyouts to anyone who voluntarily leaves their job in an effort to significantly reduce the federal workforce. Officials within the Office of Personal Management - an HR-type agency for the government - were reportedly “blindsided” by the memo, believed to be heavily influenced by billionaire Musk.
That includes Anthony Armstrong, who helped Musk buy Twitter, according to the Post. Others include Brian Bjelde from SpaceX and Amanda Scales who worked at a Musk AI firm. The trio are now in leadership positions in the office. Musk’s team also built the system that sent the email to federal workers - a system that did not exist before Trump took office, the Post noted.
It is the latest signal that Musk’s role in Trump’s new administration reaches far beyond his position leading the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE was initially pitched as an advisory committee to function outside of the government and suggest spending cutbacks but through an executive order. Trump replaced the U.S. Digital Service office with DOGE. Musk was also supposed to co-chair that with Vivek Ramaswamy, but now has sole control.
