{"id":16523,"date":"2025-02-25T23:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16523"},"modified":"2025-02-25T23:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:32:13","slug":"federal-technology-staffers-resign-rather-than-help-musk-and-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16523","title":{"rendered":"Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/doge-firings-layoffs-federal-government-workers-musk-d33cdd7872d64d2bdd8fe70c28652654\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a>, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to \u201cdismantle critical public services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bitcoin-crypto-trump-milei-melania-87b81b22e066617beafc6d5f08b2622d\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/a>&nbsp;administration were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/21-federal-technology-staffers-resign-160229566.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/21-federal-technology-staffers-resign-160229566.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk&#8217;s 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&#8217;s administration were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/21-federal-technology-staffers-resign-160229566.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[617,2131,221,1598,170],"class_list":["post-16523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bureaucracy","tag-doge","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16524,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions\/16524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}