Most of the agency heads telling employees not to respond were just installed by the President within the last few weeks.

They answer directly to the President. The email was sent by someone at OPM who also answers directly to the President.

The President has issued no formal orders regarding these emails. He did issue an executive order telling employees to comply with DOGE requests but this email came from OPM not DOGE.

There whole thing is an unclear clusterfuck.

A previous memo from the exact same email address as the "5 bullets" email told employees that this email account was being established as a way to communicate with every single federal employee at once, and stated clearly that no one was obligated to reply to any messages from the email account. They can't even figure out what the hell they are doing and be consistent with their own messages.

Once again, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

A judge has ruled otherwise.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/opm-firing-probatio...

> A judge ruled Thursday that the Office of Personnel Management — the central human resources office for the federal government — broke the law when it ordered other federal agencies to terminate thousands of “probationary” employees.

> “OPM does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees within another agency,” the judge said.