At least 21 tech employees quit Elon Musk's DOGE in a joint resignation letter on Tuesday, refusing to use their expertise to “dismantle critical public services". The employees warned that many of those hired by Musk were political ideologues lacking the necessary skills or experience, noting that this created "significant security risks".
More than 20 civil service employees resigned on February 25th from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services”.
“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press.
“However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
The employees also warned that many of those enlisted by Musk to help him slash the size of the federal government under President Donald Trump's administration were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them.
The mass resignation of engineers, data scientists and product managers is a temporary setback for Musk and the Republican president's tech-driven purge of the federal workforce. It comes amid a flurry of court challenges that have sought to stall, stop or unwind their efforts to fire or coerce thousands of government workers out of jobs. | BGNES