The new Trump administration warned about 2.3 million employees of the federal government at a single e -mail address that began this week, confused at least some ranks and files, and seemed suspicious.
Employee Management Office is testing a new feature that allows you to send important communications to all federal employees in a single postal address (HR-AT-OPM -.GOV). It is reliable according to the message sent on Friday.
CBS NEWS obtained the screen grav of the message and confirmed the authenticity with several federal employees and officials.
OPM, which serves as a federal resource and employee benefit department of the federal government, sent a message from the whole government overnight, and the two organizations confirmed the CBS news.
“This is a new effort according to this management“One of the officials said.
White House officials did not immediately respond to what the new email alarm system could be used for or why a new system is implemented this week.
The Washington Post also reported that a similar message came from other institutions and departments from Thursday. Some people who claim to be civil servants reported e -mails as spam or phishing on two Reddit threads for federal employees. One of the reddit threads said that the food pharmacy sent an e -mail to ask employees to stop the report on Friday.
The CBS News has a warning that the message “starts outside the department” at the information technology office of each department in this e -mail may not be safe.
“Everyone thought it was a spam,” Tipter asked not to publish a screen grab. “The message was terrible. ‘Is this spam?’
As I woke up with suspicious e -mails on Friday morning, this week’s great change in the number of people changed my nerves. President TrumpNew issuance as promised during the presidential election campaign Administrative measures and administrative orders Slightly recruitment this week; Temporarily Stop publishing Government public health report; I ask for the end Federal diversity, equity and included program; Critics have revived the planned civil service recruitment plan in the first administration, which can historically politicize the non -party federal labor.
And the new administration has the policy of waste, fraud, abuse and BIDEN era New government efficiency program Led by billionaire Elon Musk.
“Did they have to send this every week this week? Really?” The person who marked the email said.
An OPM official said that leaders from other organizations and departments have been notified of plans to test the new “Federal Government” on the OPM website on Thursday. In some cases, one of the officials said that Friday morning confusion occurred because it was not learned about the e -mail plan until the rank and file arrived.
One of the largest labor unions representing private federal workers had no immediate opinion on the new email system.
Eriele Delzer has contributed to this report.
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