{"id":8089,"date":"2025-02-25T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2025-02-25T21:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:52:25","slug":"federal-technology-staffers-resign-rather-than-help-musk-and-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/federal-technology-staffers-resign-rather-than-help-musk-and-doge\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to \u201cdismantle critical public services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,\u201d the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. \u201cHowever, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s administration were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to \u201cdismantle critical public services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,\u201d the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. \u201cHowever, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s administration were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/federal-technology-staffers-resign-rather-than-help-musk-and-doge\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[673,1301,8,1252,51],"class_list":["post-8089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-budget-cuts","tag-kakistocracy","tag-research","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8090,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}