Fed Workers Sue Over Email

Alright, let’s talk about this federal worker lawsuit because, honestly, this whole situation is both hilarious and kind of predictable. So, a bunch of federal employees are suing the Trump administration over an email sent out at the request of none other than Elon Musk.

And what was this supposedly outrageous email asking for? Just a quick list of five things they did at work last week. That’s it. Five bullet points. Sounds reasonable, right? Well, not if you ask the unions, activists, and assorted bureaucrats who are now calling this one of the biggest “employment frauds” in U.S. history.

Now, let’s break this down. Musk, who’s leading the charge on Trump’s government downsizing effort, is basically saying there are too many people in the federal workforce who are either doing nothing or, worse, don’t actually exist at all.

That’s right—he suspects that fake employees and even dead people are somehow still collecting government paychecks. And let’s be honest, if there’s one thing we’ve learned about the federal government, it’s that inefficiency and waste are practically built into the system.

So Musk’s plan? Send out a simple email asking people to prove they’re actually doing something. And if they don’t? Well, they might be “furthering their career elsewhere,” as he so bluntly put it on X.

Naturally, the response was chaos. Some agencies, like HHS, told their employees to comply, while others—like the FBI, State Department, and even the Pentagon—flat-out ignored it. Tulsi Gabbard, who’s now the Director of National Intelligence, even sent out a message saying intelligence employees should not respond due to the classified nature of their work.

Of course, the lawsuit isn’t just about the email itself. The real issue here is Musk and Trump’s broader initiative—DOGE (which, let’s be real, is a hilarious acronym)—to aggressively cut down on government bloat. This lawsuit is just another attempt to slow that down. Rep. John Curtis from Utah even admitted as much, saying the move was too harsh but that the broader goal of streamlining the government isn’t necessarily a bad idea.

Now, is this the best way to do it? Probably not. As Curtis pointed out, you don’t have to be cruel to be efficient. Threatening people’s jobs over an email might not be the smartest management strategy, and it definitely doesn’t help morale.

Plus, let’s be real—there’s no way Musk’s team can actually sift through tens of thousands of emails to determine who’s productive and who’s not. That said, the idea that a simple work accountability check is lawsuit-worthy? That’s a stretch.