The United States government workers who have been beaten by the chaotic return of President Donald Trump to power face more uncertainty on Monday, when many of them must justify their work to Elon Musk, the billionaire who pushes the chainsaw in charge of cutting the Federal Budget.
Musk’s demand for civil service workers of the Nation to present a summary of their work at 11:59 PM, Eastern time (9:59 am PKT) has opened fissures in Trump’s administration.
Agencies such as drug control administration and the Federal Communications Commission have told employees they comply with.
But many others, including defense departments, National Security, Education and Commerce, have ordered workers who do not respond.
The Department of Health and Human Services told their workers to cooperate, then then he told them they were waiting while discovering how to “fulfill the intention” of the unusual Musk directive.
The workers of the Consumer Financial Protection Office also received Musk email, although they have already been ordered to stop working.
Musk, the richest person in the world, has led an effort to reduce personnel that has fired more than 20,000 workers and offered purchases to another 75,000 in broad strips of the strong civil service of 2.3 million, from bank regulators to Guardaparques.
In some cases, the government has rushed to hire workers who perform critical functions such as nuclear weapons supervision and the response of the avian flu.
Trump’s administration said Sunday night that he would fire 1,600 workers from the United States Agency for International Development and put almost all the remaining personnel with a license. Trump has already stopped almost all funds and operations of the agency, launching world -world humanitarian aid for chaos.
The massive shots have suddenly promoted financial insecurity to workers who had had their jobs to provide safe income.
Charles Farinella, an agent dismissed from the IRS in New York, said he was trying to find out if he should cancel an upcoming dentist event because they have not told him if he still has coverage through his work.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do right now. I could have to seek to sell my house, because I have no compensation or anything, ”he said. “I feel quite devastated.”
The Employment Pulsation effort of Musk has also increased in the broader American economy, which forces companies that do business with the government to fire their own workers and defer payments to suppliers.
A company that works with USAID, Chemonics, said in a judicial presentation last week that he had presented 750 employees, 63 percent of his workforce.
Musk has delighted in chaos, even holding a chainsaw at a conservative political conference last week. The Chief of Tesla and the Social Network Platform X has said that his goal is to reduce $ 1 billion of the government budget of $ 6.7tr.
Trump has promised to exempt popular health and retirement benefits, which places almost half of the budget effectively outside the limits, but Musk said he would examine those programs for fraudulent payments.
“We are increasingly optimistic that, as the immense waste and frauds are eliminated from social security and medicine that there is the potential to increase the real dollars received by citizens and better medical care!” He wrote on X Sunday.
The government responsibility office, a surveillance agency, estimates that the total fraud and inadequate payments could be as high as $ 521 billion annually, equal to 8pc of spending last year.
Opposition Democrats say that the budget reduction effort violates the authority of the Congress to control government spending, but they have been largely impotent to stop it.
Republicans in Congress have encouraged the effort while preparing their own radical legislation to promulgate billion dollars in tax cuts.
But some Republicans have faced boos of voters at home who have said that Musk is exceeding their authority.
