Once again, as I said, as we said again and again, it raises many questions about how much Elon Musk gets in all these agencies, especially as it has a lot of business.
Katie Dramond: definitely. Of course, it is important to mention here, as President Trump said a few weeks ago, if Elon faces a conflict of interests, he will simply restore himself. It is clear that this was said with a great deal of ridicule. It remains to see what will conflict interests themselves from inside Dog because I have a feeling that these are not the last stories that WIRED will publish on this topic. We will take a short break. We’ll return with Brian Barrett in a minute.
Welcome to Wadi Gharib. So Brian, let’s talk about email. During the weekend, WIRED had a team of correspondents working hard to cover an email that came out of the Personnel Management Office, so mainly the Human Resources Agency for the federal government, and Elon Musk described it in X. Thus things began on Saturday. They revealed very quickly after that. Brian, told us a little more about what happened.
Brian Barrett: Well, I will start, just to clarify, I think an important part of this is that the first email did not say they would be separated if they did not want. The email has just said, sending us a point of five things what I did last week. Then Illon’s tweet separately on X, by the way, if you don’t write again, you will be forced to resign.
Katie Dramond: I hope that every type of 2.3 million federal workers will verify X regularly or will seem to be absent important updates about the employment mode from the government.
Brian Barrett: Indeed, I spoke to one person working in the federal government that silenced Elon Musk on X and has not seen it until late on Monday. This is just part of the chaos that followed. The other part, and the largest part of the image is that driving in all these agencies seems to have no idea that this would come. It was just a bomb dropped in the middle of the weekend on the federal workforce. For this reason, there was a stampede in every agency that discovers how to respond. In Noa, there was a feeling of not responding yet. It may be an e -mail for hunting. Let’s know that. Then once they decide =
Katie Dramond: Sure, it looks like random mail.
Brian Barrett: Yes, he does. In other agencies, there was somewhat, in general, there is a feeling like, let’s wait, let’s wait for Monday and you will get more guidance. Then at the same time, some people already write to the email. Some people are not. Some people did not even see it. Then some agencies began taking a position, including the FBI, as it appears that Cash Patel, who may be the most loyal to the loyalists in these situations, has drawn a line and said: “No, do not write to this.” “Certainly no. You are not doing this,” the Foreign Ministry also said. Then we see it as a kind of mixed directives in the National Institutes of Health. There was a kind of yes, but no, but yes. Other agencies did not get any directives. In some cases, Federal judges got this email.