D-Cali. Senator Alex Padilla asked Elon Musk and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Charles Ezell to stop sending large-scale emails to employees.
Padilla said in an open letter released Thursday that although the executive branch was not subject to personnel action, several legislative departments and agencies have received a large number of emails.
“Not the White House [the Department of Government Efficiency] OPM also has no power or legal purpose to enable public emails to legislative offices and agencies that require employee information or threaten adverse personnel actions. ” Padilla said.
Last weekend, OPM sent a massive email to federal government workers asking them to summarize what they did with five bullet points last week. They must provide a response to the inquiry by 11:59 pm on Monday.
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D-Calif. Split image of Senators Alex Padilla and Elon Musk. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Padilla said the emails were received by legislative staff and wasted “time and resources,” which may [mislead] Employees respond and share information from the legislative department in an unauthorized manner. ”
Elon Musk is celebrating a new poll that found that most voters believe there should be a government agency dedicated to efficiency, and Doge is helping with major spending. (Getty Image)
Padilla added that the emails were “especially about” because several executive agencies “even warned their employees not to respond to the messages because doing so would risk sensitive information falling into the hands of vicious foreign actors.”
Elon Musk met with members of the Senate’s church caucus at the White House. (Getty Image)
“These massive emails are also beyond the scope of the administration, which is another sign of how Duge operates in an uninformed, misconductive and confusing way,” Padilla said.
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Democratic lawmakers ended his letter asking Doge and OPM to confirm that they have taken steps to “make sure they will directly cease any further large-scale email communications from the legislative offices, agencies and their employees.”
