As we wrote on Saturday evening, the clean-up crew at DOGE and OMB continues to keep its nose to the grindstone, seeking to streamline a federal government that’s become bloated and redundant over many years of negligence and (potentially) graft. Part of that process happened out of the blue this weekend, as federal workers received an email directing them to reply with a list of bullet points, explaining what work they did in the past week.
Anyone who does not reply to the email, Elon Musk wrote in a tweet, “will be taken as a resignation.”
One of the more juvenile reactions to Musk’s attempt to restore accountability to the federal bureaucracy was by Democrat Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota, who wasn’t able to restrain herself from using…