On Tuesday, over 20 civil servants quit their jobs at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the brainchild of billionaire Trump adviser, claiming they would not use their technical skills to “dismantle critical public services.”
In a combined resignation letter, which The Associated Press was able to receive, the 21 staff members stated, “We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations.” “But it is now evident that we are unable to fulfil those obligations.”
The workers also cautioned that many of the people Musk hired to assist him in reducing the size of the federal government under President Donald Trump’s administration were political ideologues who lacked the expertise and experience needed for the job.
Musk and the Republican president’s tech-driven cleansing of the government workers has temporarily been hampered by the mass resignations of engineers, data scientists, designers, and product managers. It coincides with a wave of legal challenges aimed at delaying, halting, or reversing their attempts to terminate or force thousands of government employees to resign.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, dismissed the mass resignation in a statement.
Leavitt remarked, “Anyone who believes that law enforcement, protests, and lawsuits will dissuade President Trump must have been living under a rock for the past few years.” “President Trump will not be dissuaded from fulfilling his pledges to increase the effectiveness of our federal government and hold it more accountable to the diligent American taxpayers.”
