Washington DC—A deadline for public servants to resign from Federal service is set to expire Thursday, Feb. 6 as the effects of a hostile takeover of government operations became even more apparent. Details of the takeover of government agencies by handfuls of Elon Musk’s surrogates has also been spreading by word of mouth among federal employees.
As of Wednesday only 20,000 federal workers had accepted Elon Musk’s email option to resign. But an attorney who works at an agency of the federal government said the “Fork in the road” email lacked the detail commonly found in employment agreements and further expressed doubt that the email could be legally enforced. The attorney spoke on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people rallied at the Department of Labor Wednesday afternoon at 3pm to preempt a meeting planned to take place at 4pm that day between sénior federal workers and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) surrogates. DOGE is actually not an official department or an agency because it has not been officially created by Congress.
The protesters outside the Department of Labor were boisterous and it was clear from the mood of the hundreds assembled there that DOGE surrogates would not be welcome and would have difficulty entering the Francis Perkins Building, headquarters of the Department of Labor.
The protesters were themselves blocked from getting close to the entrances of the Department of Labor building by a line of police. Yet it was plainly obvious that the Federal employees were angry their jobs were on the line. (Video of Department of Labor protests here)
The in-person meeting between representatives from Elon Musk’s stand-up DOGE group was preempted, according to three Labor Department staff members.
DOGE email ‘Fork In The Road’ offer expires tomorrow, February 6
The email was sent to every Federal worker on January 28 with a subject line “Fork In The Road,” but was not at first taken seriously. It was later updated several times with amended email containing questions and clarifying answers raised among supposed anonymous Federal employees.
At first it was impossible to tell whether or not the Human Resource account from which the email was sent was official because it was so unlike any communication Federal employees had received before. Previous changes to employment conditions or to job requirements were vetted along strict guidelines and delegated to departments or agencies human resources teams for clarifying questions and legal review. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issues such personnel actions in specific formats using special forms which are approved under a strict delegation process through human resource channels. The DOGE email lacked all of the typical policy guidelines of regulated personnel actions.
In this way a personnel action could be reviewed to verify it met legal thresholds of an enforceable contract. The email itself was not signed and it lacked the basic legal details of a typical government document, according to a Federal human resources attorney.
A copy of the deferred resignation email was published on the OPM website which itself has been completely removed or redesigned here.
Update Of Other Developments Wednesday, 5 Feb 2025. What We Know So Far:
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NASA Dragged Into DEI Language Purge
— NASA workers were told to drop all their regular work projects to immediately begin removing all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) references from their websites and internal documentation.
USAID Rally Grows, Continues For A Second Day
—The U.S. Agency for International Development Federal workers and supporters rallied again but this time outside the US Capitol where there was more room to assemble. The protest grew significantly by thousands after the USAID website was taken down and went dark. Additionally all USAID personnel abroad were abruptly suspended from working further on any project and ordered to leave their host countries this week. Contractors were fired by the thousands.
Protests continued outside the U.S. Treasury building again today. The rally was spurred by a handful of DOGE surrogates accessing disbursement accounts which control the flow of over $6 Trillion annually.
The protests are seeming to gain more support as additional Federal workers begin to join the swelling ranks of angry public servants in the streets of the Nation’s Capital.
CIA Agents names transmitted over unclassified email server.
— CIA agents were offered a deferred resignation letter today. The intent of the offer was to reduce the CIA workforce.
A list of the partial names of the CIA agents hired in the last two years was transmitted over an unclassified network to the White House, potentially exposing who the agents are to the public or worse, to adversaries abroad. CIA agent name lists are some of the most closely guarded national intelligence, at least up until today.
NOAA—DOGE surrogates accessed agency IT systems Tuesday
— A published report in Axios confirmed DOGE surrogates gained access to the IT systems at National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) supposedly to determine what employees were responsible for DEI initiatives.
NOAA is the agency responsible for tracking weather, conducts climate and global heating measurements and studies, and hosts global warming statistical reports and stories on its website. The agency has published reports from studies its scientists have undertaken for decades.
Trump has challenged NOAA reports of climate and global heat and downplayed, or has dismissed them altogether as fake reporting.
Climate change and global warming are serious issues confronting the environment, and affect every region country, and continent. According to scientists the global temperature average will exceed an increase of 2.0 degrees centigrade before the end of 2050.
Accessing the databases of NOAA and removing reports on climate, increased global heat, and its effect on the planet would be a devastating loss of vital information on this subject.
