Elon Musk, the billionaire chief of the Ministry of Efficiency of the Trump Administration Government, threatened on Saturday to dismiss any federal worker who failed to explain what work they accomplished in the previous week.
The threat, published in an article on Musk’s social media site, was made a few hours after US President Donald Trump published on his own social media network that Doge should become more aggressive in his attempts to reduce reduction workforce and reshape the federal workforce.
“All federal employees will soon receive an email asking to understand what they did last week,” Musk published on X, formerly Twitter. “The lack of response will be considered a resignation.”
Saturday evening, emails were sent to employees of federal agencies, in particular the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with the object line “what did you do the Last week? “
E-mail, seen by Reuters, asks employees to respond to the email they received with five chips summarizing “what you accomplished at work last week” and copy their managers.
The email gives employees until 11:59 p.m. on Monday to answer.
We do not know which Musk judge must end the federal workers if they do not meet his request, which intervenes in the rapid and controversial process of the Trump administration to reduce public spending by shrinking the workforce Federal.
The process, led by Musk and its young employees at cost reduction doge, has led to random layoffs that have led to many errors and have forced several agencies to rapidly re -entry vital employees, such as those working on nuclear security, the defense and the production of electricity.
The first wave of job cuts has targeted workers who are easier to turn, such as “probationary” employees at work for less than two years or those who have started new roles within an agency.
The blind layoffs have led Doge to dismiss people whose jobs are not funded by taxpayers and have started to anger people across the country who are concerned about a loss of services, as well as the impact of losses of ‘Federal jobs on local economies.
Trump spoke of Musk several times as a functional chief of Doge, who is not a department at the office, but the White House declared in a legal file earlier this month that Musk had no Authority on Doge and was not an employee of the program.
