President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff has asked Cabinet nominees to stop posting on social media as their Senate confirmation hearings are set to begin after the 119th Congress gets under way Friday.

“While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself,” Susie Wiles wrote Sunday in a memo obtained by the New York Post. “Accordingly, all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel.”

The memo is not in response to a recent social media dustup created by Department of Government Efficiency chairs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over H-1B visas, the Post reported Monday, citing a source for Trump’s transition team.

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