The largest federal union, the United States Federation of Government Employees, said on social media on Sunday that masks have the power to fire unresponsive employees, officially demanding that the HR Bureau retract the message. I wrote it. Some federal judicial employees, including judges, also received emails Saturday, but the court system is not part of the administrative agency, the U.S. Court Administration said. The judiciary advised employees that they should not take action in response to the message, according to an email reviewed by Reuters.
Musk is clearly facing pushbacks from federal workers and bosses appointed by Trump. Musk’s challenge to authority comes when Trump’s Maga base is also unsure about his oversized role in the administration. Trump encouraged Musk to be more aggressive with his cost-cutting companies and posted memes ridiculously at his negative reaction to emails, but Doge has some that include Trump supporters and the general public. has been under pressure since the quarter.
Who is the manager of the Doge, if not the mask?
Denied bids by union groups to stop dramatic downsizing of Trump’s roughly 2.3 million federal workers, and last week the Trump administration could continue to fire massive shots of federal workers for now I decided that. It was a welcome rest for Doge, facing several legal challenges across the country.
However, many believe that Doge could be chained by law. Apparently to blunt legal challenges to Musk’s position, the White House said in court last Monday that Mask’s role in the Trump administration was the role of White House employees and senior advisers to the president, who said he was against Doge. He is not authorized and not an employee of the program. The judge was skeptical when a Justice Department lawyer declared that Musk had no formal authority. “I think you’ll grow too far. I don’t agree with you there,” she said. Litigators say Musk wields “virtually unconfirmed powers” in violation of the Constitution. White House press chief Caroline Levitt refused to tell White House reporters that he had a Doge Administrator, but in an interview with the Fox News Channel, Musk was on behalf of the President. He said he was tasked with overseeing the efforts. The layoffs have been told reporters and left to the head of a private agency. Trump said masks appear to be inconsistent with those responsible for government efficiency and running cost-cutting programs.
Musk is accused of many conflicts of interest between his business interests and his efforts to reduce federal costs. The White House says that if a conflict of interest arises, billionaires will reject themselves. The White House may have a hard time defending the role of masks as a legal challenge.
The mask faces pushbacks from several directions
Mask’s cost-cutting companies have gained widespread support, even on the Democratic foundations, but increasingly Americans are questioning the impact of his chainsaw approach.
The majority of Americans are worried that Musk’s willingness to cut the federal government could hurt services that rely on their communities, and billionaires have a huge impact on the Trump administration. They believe they will give, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found last week. Approximately 58% of respondents in the six-day survey completed last Tuesday said they were concerned that federal programs such as Social Security Retirement and Student Aid could be delayed by Musk’s campaign. about it.
Americans, including some of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters, have a view on the impact that wealthy Americans have on the White House after Trump restocks his cabinet and circle of advisors to corporate executives and billionaires. I’m nervous. Of the poll respondents, 71% agreed to a statement that very wealthy people have had too much impact on the White House, while 69% have wealthy people making money from White House connections. I think there is.
There are even voices of opposition within the Republican Party over the style of Doge’s functionality. “If you could say one thing to Elon Musk, it would be, ‘Put your compassion in this. These are real people. Sen. John Curtis of Utah is on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ In an interview on Sunday,” he said. “It’s a false story to say we have to cut. You have to be cruel to do that too. You can do both.”
Legal experts say Trump and Musk are violating laws that empower Congress on the issue of spending. Republican lawmakers have largely supported the effort, but some faced an angry reception when they met voters in their hometown last week. At a City Hall meeting in Roswell, Georgia, Republican leader Rich McCormick heard cat calls and boos from voters as he tried to protect the cost reductions on masks. “They were indiscriminate and they took the chainsaw on these things,” one attendee told him. Another Republican Rep. Scott Fitzgerald faced an equally frustrating crowd in West Bend, Wisconsin. “The president is not the king,” said one attendee of the video broadcast by TMJ4, a local NBC affiliate. Fitzgerald was cut off with a jealous chorus when he told the room that Musk was effective in finding waste.
In Westerville, Ohio, Republican leader Troy Balderson reported that Trump’s executive order has “going out of control,” the Columbus dispatch reported. “Congress must decide whether the Department of Education will disappear,” Balderson said at a business luncheon, the newspaper reported. “It’s not the president, it’s not Elon Musk,” Trump vowed to remove the department. Balderson later said he supported Trump’s cost-cutting agenda.
From legal challenges raised by Democrats to Trump’s loyalty, leading various federal agencies that have been removed from musk to Americans starting to challenge Americans, Doge’s cost cuts are what makes him layoffs for the masses Starting to see ways that can negatively affect Republicans facing questions from constituents, Musk’s Doge can bite. Over the coming weeks, Musk may soften its chainsaw approach to cost reductions, not alienating the loyalty of Maga Base and other Trumps. Or there is the risk of a “collapse” of Republican support.
Famous Democratic strategist James Kerrville has presented a surprising prediction that the Trump administration is “in the middle of collapse,” and according to a report by the New York Post, it will collapse within four to six weeks. On Friday, Kerrville urged fellow Democrats to play “Possum,” keeping them out of the way, and President Trump advanced a dramatic federal overhaul to burst Republicans.
“I believe this administration will be in the midst of a massive collapse and a particularly public collapse within 30 days,” Kerrville said. Citing vote data, he argued that Trump’s approval ratings were plummeting, and within weeks Republicans would be nearly completely blocked by Congress. Historically, similar events have been made in the past years of elections and in the years of past 2010 as a precursor to minorities seizing the House of Representatives in midterm elections.
Kerrville also suggested that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) struggle to get Republicans on board for Trump’s marquee agenda package.
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