Ted Carstensen, the deputy administrator of the United States Digital Service (USDS) organization that has been renamed to Elon Muskâs Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is resigning instead of taking the âFork in the Roadâ deferred resignation offer for federal employees.
âI write to let you know that I have decided to resign from USDS and today will be my last day,â Carstensen said in an internal memo to colleagues that was obtained by The Verge. âI am not taking the fork, but after discussions with my family and other trusted advisors I decided that it is time for me to pursue a different path.â
Moments after Carstensen announced his departure, a federal judge ordered to delay the Musk-coded resignation deadline from Thursday to after a hearing on the matter thatâs scheduled for February 10th.
USDS has been thrown into chaos since the organization was renamed to DOGE a couple of weeks ago, according to multiple employees who requested anonymity to speak without the governmentâs permission. Even though Trumpâs executive order put Musk in charge of USDS, the groupâs roughly 200 engineers, product managers, and designers have continued operating i …