“Do as in X” the tactic followed by Musk – also placed sofas and beds in the Personnel Management Office to work more
Associates of Ilon Musk, who have taken over the administration of the US government’s human resources service, have excluded civil servants from electronic systems containing the personal data of millions of federal employees, as two officials complain to Reuters.
Since taking up his duties 11 days ago, Donald Trump has begun a mass government reorganization, dismissing and set aside hundreds of civil servants in his first steps to shrinking bureaucracy.
The billionaire Musk has taken on the role of reducing the political government labor that lists 2.2 million people and to replace them with his allies in the service known as the Personnel Management Office (ORM).
Two officials, who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said that some senior OPM employees have revoked their access to some of the service data systems.
The systems include a huge database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains birth dates, social security numbers, ratings, residence addresses, wage levels and duration of government officials, officials said.
“We don’t know what we do with computers and data systems”, He mentioned one of the officers, noting that “This raises great concern. There is no supervision and creates real implications for cyber security and hacking. “
Employees affected by traffic can even connect and access functions such as e -mail, but can no longer see the huge sets of data covering every aspect of the federal workforce.
Don Munihan, a professor at the University of Michigan University Policy School, said actions inside OPM raise concerns about the Supervision of Congress to the service and the way in which the Trabbs and Musk see the federal bureaucracy.
“This makes it much more difficult for anyone other than the narrow circle of Musk on OPM to know what’s going on”, He stressed.
Musk’s influence
A group consisting of current and former Musk employees took over the OPM administration on January 20, on the day of Trump’s duties.
They carried sofas on the 5th floor of the Organization’s headquarters, which contains the office of the Director and to which one can only have access to a security mark or security escort, said one of the OPM employees.
The sofas-beds have been installed so that the team can She works around the clockwisesaid the employee.
Musk follows the same method he did when he took over X (formerly twitter), placing beds at the headquarters for employees to work longer.
‘Looks like a hostile takeover’, commented on the same employee.
The new appointed head of the OPM also transferred the head of the organization’s management, Katie Malag, outside her office and a new office on a different floor, officials said.
The movements of Musk’s assistants at OPM and the upheaval caused within the Ministry of Finance building by other billionaire assistants emphasize the sweeping influence that Musk exerts throughout the government.
David Labrick, a leading US career official, a finance ministry official, is set to leave his position after a clash with Musk allies, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
The new group in OPM includes software engineers and Brian Bieldewho joined the SpaceX of Musk in 2003 as an aeronautical engineer before climbing hierarchically and becoming Vice President of the Company’s Human Resources. His role in OPM is that of the highest advisor.
OPM head executives, Charles Ezel, He has been sending memos to all government staff since Trump took his duties, inviting federal employees to give up with eight -month earnings;
“No one here knew that the memos would come out. We learn about these memos at the same time as the rest of the world ‘, said one of the employees.
In the group that now runs the OPM is the Amanda Sleils, former Musk employeewhich is now head of OPM staff.
Another senior consultant is Ricardo Biasini, a former Tesla engineer and recently director of The Boring Company, Musk’s business for the construction of a tunnel in Las Vegas.
In short, all his people.
Source :Skai
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