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New email tells federal employees to list recent accomplishments weekly


Musk claims the emails are aimed at identifying dead payroll employees.

Federal workers started getting emails on Friday night, “asking them to provide a list of accomplishments from the week,” reports The New York Times. In an open letter the same day, Senator Alex Padilla (D-California) urged Musk and the OPM to stop sending emails to employees of legislative branch offices and agencies “who are not subject to personnel actions by the Executive branch.” Padilla said the messages are “wasting time and resources and potentially misleading employees into responding and sharing legislative branch information in an unauthorized manner.” A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell you everything you need to download, watch, read, listen to, and explore that fits in The Verge’s universe.

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