Musk’s email ultimatum leads to mixed messages: From the Politics Desk

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In the present edition, we see how email email is in the Elon Musk’s email to federal employees who evoke government confusion. In addition, Ohio’s Lenry J. Gomez takes stock of what Gubernatorial Bid in Vivek Ramaswamy means for state GOP building.

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Emon Ulk ultimatum email brings mixed messages for Federal Workers

Federal employees start a work week receiving mixed messages from above.

Within the weekends, Elon Musk told X that federal workers receive an email asking them to report what they have done last week or lose their jobs.

Emails from the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) do not mention the threat of resignation, but said: “Please answer this email with an estimate. 5 Ammunition of your manager. Please do not Send any classified information, links, or attachments. The deadline is Monday at 11:59 PM EST. “

President Donald Trump took action in Musk, saying reporters have “many genius” to send the email. “If you don’t answer, like, you’re different semi-fires or shoot you,” Trump said.

But later in the day, OPM told agencies that the email answers actually volunteers.

Chaos and confusion: Before that, different agencies provide different instructions on how emails handle.

Some agencies – including the heads of close ally of Trump – telling their employees ignore the directive.

• Justice Department Employmees announced on Monday they do not need to respond to the message, according to the emails seen in the NBC News.
• The FBI Director Kash Patel has ordered employees at the end of the week to “give up any answers” in the email, and say that his will do its own review.
• State Department Employees, The National Institute of Health, Defense Defense, National Security Agency and National Intelligence Director Director are told not to respond to email.
• The Department of Agriculture also sends an unsigned email to employees informing them that any response is “voluntary and unnecessary.”

But with other agencies, employees were told to respond or given guidance on how to do it.

• Officers of the health department and the services of the Services and the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are ordered to respond to the deadline.
• An email sent to the Department of Transportation employee and acquired NBC News also teaches them to respond to OPM’s email. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy accepted the challenge himself in a social media post.
• Managers within the Environmental Protection Agency send models of Employee responses to email to make them easier for them.

What is next happening: Email responses are expected to be fed with an artificial intelligence system to determine whether jobs are required, according to three system sources.

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What to know from Trump’s head today

• Trumpet told reporters During a visit to the French president Emmanuel Macron that the US and Ukraine “is very close to a final deal” in rare mineral lands. she Well as that “European troops can go to Ukraine as peace advocates” as part of an agreement to end the War in Russia.
• The US voted against A resolution of the United Nations condemns Russia for invading Ukraine.
• Now and former FBI officials expressed shock and distress In Trump’s choice of commentator Dan Bongino as a representative director of the agency, a position usually held by a FBI career agent.
• The FBI Director Kash Patel expected to continue Another main papor of law enforcement as head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Weapons and Explosives.
• A federal judge refused to issue A temporary control of the command against the White House for denialing Associated Press Full Access, asking for a better decision making.
• The Trump Administration looks at Eliminate 2,000 positions In the US agency for international progress after a federal judge ruling that fires can continue.
• A federal judge Blocked Department of Education and OPM From sharing personal information about plaintiffs part of a suit against the Trump administration.

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How Vivek Ramaswamy Candles Destroying Old Guard Ohio Gop

By Henry J. Gomez

Cleveland – Cleveland’s newly launched – Vivek Ramaswamy’s newness for Ohio Governor to keep a new buckete style – one where a right to cooctelate at the top office of High Donald Trump office.

JD Vancecce, the best known for a better memoir Ron Howard turned into a movies Oscar-bait, was the first to do it. An endorsement of Trump catapulted from a broken and dangerous primary of the Senate three years ago, which put him on a path to the presidency of the Vice Presidency. Car Dealer Dealer Bernie Moreno repeated the formula last year, Ohio’s establishment of Primary Primary in High-Stakes of Unemployed Democratic Senator Senator. Sherrod Brown.

Ramaswamy’s 2026 efforts might even disturb – and not just because he talking about improving steps like steps and the merit-based teacher pays if he is selected. It has a rattling domino effect on the deepest portion of Ohio but the top-heavy Republican republican bench, once a model of unstable stability.

Ohio Gov. Mike Dewine, a term of limited Republican, his Tieutenant Governor has long been thinking, Jon, Jon, he hath executed. But the vance election while creating an opening. And with Ramaswamy experiencing a 2026 campaign for the Governor, many saw Dewine’s appointment referred to the Senated Seat.

But that’s just a domino. Two other Republicans, Ohio Attorney General Deve Yost and State Treasurer Sprague, it is available in preparing their own campaigns for the Governor. Yost went first and launched first, and in an interview with the NBC news last week took many swipes in Ramaswamy. In the meantime, Sprague saw writing on the wall, Rimewamy endorsed and announced that he would run instead for secretary of the state of Ohio.

A democrat has not been selected Governor in Ohio since 2006 in the meantime, the Republicans build a roster of ambitious opponents that spent the last 15 years planning their next step.

Ramaswamy has many plans on flux plans. A Republican who wants to run for the governor running for the Secretary of State. A Republican who wants to run for the Secretary of State running for the State Buyer. The term limited secretary of Pettle Frank Prank, who lost a primary Senate last year, found his own spoiled Republicans back into the selected office and announced a run by the auditor in the state.

A unique question: DOW-Guard of the Party Dewine Dewine will make a final push of back attack and interference Lt. Gov. Jim Trotsel As a candidate?

TRANSEL, a popular former one ohio state football coach with a sound of offer participation in the long name of Ramaswamy, did not relate to running. But there are some signs – outside a traysafgorgornor.com website Which a thssel spokesman rejects the knowledge last week – that he or whom or anyone who works for his name puts on the basis for a campaign.

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