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DOGE Staff Had Questions About the 'Resign' Email. Their HR Chief Dodged Them

“I think the information that you’re going to have about this is available to you right now,” Stephanie Holmes told workers at Elon Musk’s DOGE who pressed for detail on offers of “deferred resignation.”

The questions covered issues ranging from the future of staff projects to whether the return-to-office mandates would apply to fully remote workers, as well as the exact nature of the offer the federal government was making employees. In the email—which was very similar to one Musk sent Twitter employees in 2022 —the sender, identified as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), suggests that workers who choose not to resign could still lose their jobs later down the line. While Musk has installed lieutenants at its top levels and is now using it as a lever to exercise control over the federal government, prior to the recent executive order, the US Digital Service was a relatively small agency with about 200 employees.

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