JUST IN: Elon Musk Aides Have Locked Some Government Workers Out Of Their Computers

Wild reports are starting to come out alleging that aides of Elon Musk have locked a cadre of federal employees out of computer systems which they normally would have access to.

The systems in questions are blocks of data containing personal information of millions of federal workers.

JUST IN: Elon Musk aides have locked some government workers out of their computers – Reuters

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 31, 2025

Two officials in particular with the Office of Personnel Management, the Human Resources office of the federal government, have spoken anonymously to news outlets regarding the lockout.

Senior career employees at OPM have had access revoked to the department’s data systems, according to a story by CNBC:

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

Since taking office 11 days ago, President Donald Trump has embarked on a massive government makeover, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants in his first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists.

The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department’s data systems.

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The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.

Officials affected by the move can still log on and access functions such as email but can no longer see the massive datasets that cover every facet of the federal workforce.

A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency’s headquarters, which contains the director’s office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said.

The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said.

Musk, a major donor to a famously demanding boss, installed beds at X for employees to enable them to work longer when in 2022 he took over the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.

“It feels like a hostile takeover,” the employee said.

The new appointees in charge of OPM have moved the agency’s chief management officer, Katie Malague, out of her office and to a new office on a different floor, the officials said.

Malague did not respond to a request for comment.

As usual, the mainstream media is playing their role to the hilt.

Panic-stricken and morose, the average news outlet is painting the picture of a tech-tyrant swooping in and consolidating power for himself.

The reality somewhat different, considering that President Trump ran his campaign almost entirely on the promise to completely shake-up and “fix” the current state of corruption, waste, and bureaucracy that has left the United States reeling and vulnerable.

Whereas democrats and their media arms are crying foul over Musk’s consolidation of power to himself, what is actually happening is a de-consolidation of illigitimate power.

Elon simply happens to be the trusted person imbued with authority from the one whom the American people actually tasked to make these changes — President Trump.

That hasn’t stopped them from panicking over imaginings of an Elon technilogical coup.

Elon telling his aides to lock government workers out of the system 😂pic.twitter.com/ori3IAL1rW https://t.co/F6Wrr4wuBg

— drefanzor memes (@drefanzor) January 31, 2025

Others have surmised a slightly more realistic angle on the reports.

Could it be that Elon and/or DOGE is simply being tasked with protecting critical private information from those who may be on President Trump’s chopping block, in case they decided to use their previously unmitigated access to that data as a means of metaphorically ‘burning the place down’ on their way out of the door?

Federal employees were told to return to the office by February 6 or be fired. They were offered generous severance packages.

Elon Musk's aides now locked career employees out of the Office of Personnel Management computer systems which contains confidental employee data.… https://t.co/yeazWWOV7F

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According to the officials from OPM who spoke with the media anonymously, Musk demands that his team work overnight and 80-hour weeks in their search for budget cuts to reach DOGE’s quota.

Exclusive: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US government human resources agency locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials https://t.co/JFULq4cGzt

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 31, 2025

Musk’s team have taken over the top floor of the OPM office, and are not allowing others into the area, according to a report by Raw Story:

The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said.
Musk, a major donor to a famously demanding boss, installed beds at X for employees to enable them to work longer when in 2022 he took over the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.

“It feels like a hostile takeover,” the employee said.

The new appointees in charge of OPM have moved the agency’s chief management officer, Katie Malague, out of her office and to a new office on a different floor, the officials said.

Malague did not respond to a request for comment.

The moves by Musk’s aides at OPM, and upheaval inside the Treasury building caused by other Musk aides that was reported on Friday, underscore the sweeping influence Musk is having across government.

David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, is set to leave his post following a clash with allies of Musk after they asked for access to payment systems, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

“A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM (Office of Personnel Management) on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency's headquarters.”

Elon is pulling a Twitter 2.0 on the Government. pic.twitter.com/wMMKQdC7Zo

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) February 1, 2025

It strikes me that people still expect “business as usual”.

They don’t expect President Trump to gut the FBI like he promised to do.  They don’t expect him to rollback DEI hiring practices like he promised to do.

And they certainly don’t expect him to take the bull by the horns and WRESTLE the illegitimate power of the Deep State from their trans-feminine hands (I don’t even know what that phrase would mean – I just made it up! But… isn’t that the point?), and replace both REALITY and the CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED back in the driver’s seat of American on all levels.

But… he’s doing it.

And whether it be through Elon Musk, RFK Jr, or Kash Patel — that is the primary fixture of all that is coloring Trump Administration 2.0 in their opening salvo of the war on Deep State hegemony.

It really doesn’t matter by whom or which mechanism the changes come.

The fact is, changes are coming.  And those who willingly pushed, or neglectfully allowed this country to get so close to the precipice that it because questionable if we could stop the slide in time… those people have no place in President Trump’s administration, or in the government that Trump will rebuild.

He has a mandate, and he is using it in a way that directly reflects the will of the American people.

And if it just so happens that he has found a method of carrying out the will of the people that irritates the democrats, RINOs, legacy media, and lawfare lawyers to no end… all the better.