Alex Padilla calls for Musk, OPM cease sending mass emails to staffers

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Cali., is demanding that Elon Musk and Appearing Director of the Workplace of Personnel Administration (OPM) Charles Ezell cease sending mass emails to staffers. 

In an open letter revealed Thursday, Padilla mentioned a number of legislative department workplaces and businesses have obtained mass emails from hr@opm.gov regardless of not being topic to personnel actions by the chief department. 

“Neither the White Home nor [the Department of Government Efficiency] nor OPM have any authority or professional objective to mass e-mail legislative department workplaces and businesses demanding info from staff or to threaten hostile personnel actions,” Padilla mentioned. 

Over the weekend, the OPM despatched out mass emails to federal authorities employees, asking them to summarize what they did over the prior week utilizing 5 bullet factors. They’d till 11:59 p.m. on Monday to supply their responses to the inquiry. 

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Cut up picture of Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Elon Musk.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photographs; Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)

Padilla mentioned these emails, obtained by legislative staffers, wasted “time and sources and probably [mislead] staff into responding and sharing legislative department info in an unauthorized method.” 

Elon Musk is celebrating a brand new ballot that discovered most voters agree there ought to be a authorities company devoted to effectivity and that DOGE helps to make main spending cuts.  (Getty Photographs)

Padilla added that the emails have been “particularly regarding” since a number of govt department businesses have “even warned their very own staff not to answer these messages as a result of doing so would threat delicate info falling into the fingers of malign overseas actors.” 

Elon Musk met with members of the Senate DOGE caucus on the White Home. (Getty Photographs)

“The truth that these mass emails are additionally going past the scope of the chief department is yet one more signal of how DOGE is working in an uninformed, poorly executed, and chaotic method,” Padilla mentioned.

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The Democratic lawmaker ended his letter requesting that DOGE and OPM affirm they’ve taken steps “to make sure that they’ll stop instantly any additional mass e-mail communications at legislative department workplaces and businesses and their staff.”