当亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克上周末在X上发帖称所有联邦雇员将很快收到一封电子邮件要求他们工作的细节多个消息来源告诉美国广播公司新闻，从过去的一周开始，白宫高级官员-他们没有被完全告知该计划-最初措手不及。
马斯克的电子邮件随后会在整个联邦政府引发广泛的混乱。这在特朗普内阁成员中造成了紧张局势，因为多个机构负责人告诉他们的员工在他们自己听取情况介绍之前不要回答。
周六晚间的电子邮件发出后不久，知情人士透露，白宫高级职员曾就向自己的员工发布指导意见进行过辩论，告诉他们不需要回复。周一晚些时候，人事管理办公室援引《总统记录法》称，白宫工作人员免于参加演习。
马斯克与唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统在白宫的高级顾问之间缺乏沟通，这些顾问负责执行他的第二任期议程，这是这位世界首富自上月抵达华盛顿以来一系列有争议的举动中的最新一个，这些举动已开始在总统身边的一些人之间产生分歧。
消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，马斯克的旋风式方法——以快速削减联邦劳动力和主导全国头条新闻为标志——在白宫和特朗普核心圈子的一些人中间引发了裂痕。一些接近总统的人对马斯克的疯狂步伐和他明显无视与总统周围高级官员的协调感到愤怒。然而，其他人表示支持这种策略，并欢迎马斯克迄今为止的快节奏努力，称赞它们是对停滞不前的系统早就应该进行的调整。
新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特(Karoline Leavitt)周二在新闻发布会上表示，“总统和埃隆以及他的整个内阁正在作为一个统一的团队工作，他们正在实施这些非常常识性的解决方案，”并补充说，超过100万名联邦工作人员对马斯克的“上周你做了什么?”邮件，包括她自己。莱维特表示，马斯克将出席特朗普定于周三举行的首次内阁会议。
消息人士称，由于马斯克以令人想起他在自己公司的方式的极快速度撕裂联邦劳动力，白宫有时会通过媒体报道或他自己在X上的帖子，而不是通过通常的高级职员链，首次了解他的行动，这让一些高级官员感到不快，他们认为这位亿万富翁的方法越来越失控。
消息人士称，尽管马斯克在特朗普的轨道上有一些批评者，但他已经获得了总统周围一些最强大声音的支持，包括白宫负责政策的副参谋长兼美国国土安全顾问斯蒂芬·米勒，以及马斯克政府效率部的高级顾问凯蒂·米勒，她是斯蒂芬·米勒的妻子。
尽管如此，尽管白宫的一些人对马斯克在华盛顿头几周的一些方面越来越失望，但消息人士称，人们对干预犹豫不决，这不仅是因为这位亿万富翁的巨额财富，更重要的是，鉴于他比以往任何时候都更大的影响力和他对x的所有权。
一些与马斯克有关的人已经辞职，认为特斯拉首席执行官不太可能很快受到控制，而是专注于尽可能地控制局面，直到他的特别政府合同在今年晚些时候结束，尽管目前还不清楚马斯克是否计划届时离开华盛顿。
“有些人喜欢它，有些人等不及[马斯克]离开——底线是他不会很快去任何地方，”一位知情人士告诉ABC新闻。
作为对此事的回应，一名白宫高级官员告诉美国广播公司新闻，“任何暗示特朗普白宫高级领导层在DOGE的行动上没有得到适当建议的说法都是完全错误的。作为一名SGE，埃隆·马斯克直接与美国总统及其团队的高级成员合作，协调总统议程的有效和高效执行。”
“美国人民广泛支持总督的使命。看看哈里斯民意调查就知道了，在该调查中，绝大多数美国人支持总督的使命。任何在两党中被视为反对这项任务的人，都是在反对华盛顿早该进行的变革。如果你不想成为解决方案的一部分，你现在就是问题的一部分，”这位官员补充道。
这位南非出生的商人花了2.7亿美元帮助特朗普连任。当特朗普于1月20日重返办公室时，他授权马斯克削减联邦支出，并作为新成立的总督的首席顾问，就美国的未来做出关键决定。
美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)此前报道称，马斯克最初希望在白宫西翼拥有一间办公室，但多名熟悉他言论的人士告诉美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)，马斯克告诉《人物》杂志，他认为给他的办公室太小了，此后他搬进了艾森豪威尔行政办公楼的办公室，在那里他为年轻员工带来了睡眠舱，他们一直工作到深夜。
马斯克已被指定为政府特别雇员。在过去十年中，他的公司特斯拉和太空探索技术公司获得了180亿美元的联邦合同。部分资金来自总统要求马斯克审查的机构，但马斯克否认了可能存在利益冲突的说法。
“不，因为你必须看着个人合同，然后说，首先，你知道，我不是那个提交合同的人——是太空探索技术公司的人，”他本月早些时候告诉ABC新闻。
Musk's whirlwind approach sparks rift in the White House and in Trump's orbit: Sources
When billionaire Elon Musk posted on X last weekend that all federal employees would soon receive an email demandingdetails of their workfrom the past week, senior White House officials -- who had not been fully briefed on the plan -- were initially caught off guard, multiple sources told ABC News.
Musk’s email would then set off widespread confusion across the federal government. It created tension among members of Trump’s Cabinet, as multiple agency heads told their employees to hold off on replying until they themselves were briefed on the situation.
At one point shortly after the Saturday evening email, sources familiar with the discussions said senior White House staff debated issuing guidance to their own employees, informing them that they did not need to reply. Late Monday night, the Office of Personnel Management said that White House staff were exempt from the exercise, citing the Presidential Records Act.
The lack of communication between Musk and President Donald Trump’s top advisers in the White House, who are responsible for executing his second-term agenda, is the latest in a series of controversial moves by the world’s richest man since he arrived in Washington last month that have begun to divide some of those closest to the president.
Musk’s whirlwind approach -- marked by rapid gutting of the federal workforce and dominating national headlines -- has sparked a rift among some in the White House and Trump’s inner circle, sources told ABC News. Some close to the president have bristled at Musk’s frenetic pace and his apparent disregard for coordinating with senior officials around the president. Others, however, have expressed support for the tactics and embraced Musk’s fast-paced efforts so far, hailing them as a long-overdue shakeup of a stagnant system.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing Tuesday that “the President and Elon, and his entire Cabinet, are working as one unified team, and they are implementing these very common-sense solutions,” adding that more than 1 million federal workers had responded to Musk’s "What did you do last week?" email, including herself. Leavitt said that Musk would attend Trump’s first Cabinet meeting set for Wednesday.
But as Musk has ripped through the federal workforce at a breakneck pace reminiscent of his approach at his own companies, the White House has, at times, first learned of his actions through media reports or his own posts on X instead of through the usual chain of senior staff, sources said, which has ruffled feathers among some top officials who view the billionaire’s methods as increasingly out of control.
But while Musk has some detractors in Trump’s orbit, he has gained support from some of the most powerful voices around the president, including Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and U.S. Homeland Security adviser, and Katie Miller, a senior adviser to Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency efforts who is married to Stephen Miller, sources said.
Still, even with some in the White House growing frustrated with aspects of Musk’s first few weeks in Washington, sources said there is hesitancy to intervene, given not only the billionaire’s immense wealth but, perhaps more importantly, his vast influence given his larger-than-ever profile and his ownership of X.
Some concerned with Musk have resigned themselves that the Tesla CEO is unlikely to be reined in anytime soon and are instead focused on managing the situation as best they can until his special government contract comes to an end later this year, though it is not immediately clear if Musk plans to leave Washington then, either.
“Some love it, some can’t wait for [Musk] to leave -- bottom line is he’s not going anywhere anytime soon,” a source familiar told ABC News.
In response to this story, a senior White House official told ABC News, “Any insinuation that senior leadership in the Trump White House is not properly being advised on the actions of DOGE is completely false. As an SGE, Elon Musk works directly with the president of the United States and senior members of his team to coordinate the effective and efficient execution of the president's agenda.”
“The American people widely support the mission of DOGE. Look no further than the Harris poll in which a vast majority of Americans support the mission of DOGE. Anyone who is seen as objecting to this mission in either party is objecting to long overdue change in Washington. If you're not going to be a part of the solution, you are now a part of the problem,” the official added.
The South African-born businessman spent $270 million to help Trump get reelected. When Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, he empowered Musk to slash federal spending and make key decisions about the future of the U.S. as a lead adviser in the newly created DOGE.
ABC News previously reported that Musk initially wanted an office in the West Wing, but told people he thought what he was given was too small, multiple people familiar with his comments told ABC News, and has since taken up offices in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where he brought in sleep pods for his young staffers as they worked deep into the night.
Musk has been designated as a special government employee. His companies Tesla and SpaceX have been awarded $18 billion in federal contracts over the last decade. Some of this money has come from agencies the president asked Musk to review, but Musk dismissed the notion that there could be conflicts of interest.
"No, because you have to look at the individual contract and say, first of all, I'm not the one, you know, filing the contract -- it's people at SpaceX," he told ABC News earlier this month.
