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Elon Musk warned American government employees they had to disclose what they worked on last week or face the bag.
The billionaire posted on Saturday: “In accordance with the president @RealdonaldtrumpInstructions, all federal employees will soon receive an email asking to understand what they did last week. »»
The de facto chief of the so-called Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government added that “lack of response will be considered a resignation”.
A note sent shortly after the American government’s human resources department, which was summarized for the Financial Times by several people, orders government staff to respond with about five chips on what they achieved on Monday at midnight.
This also urges employees not to send classified equipment to their responses.
This decision – which echoes the tactics used by Musk when he took control of Twitter – came shortly after a message from Donald Trump, in which he declared that the billionaire “was doing a great job, but I would like the see becoming more aggressive ”.
Musk’s Doge has already ravaged the main ministries, shredding hundreds of contracts and suspending tens of thousands of staff.
The Trump administration has been faced with reactions for the dismissal of veterans and cybersecurity staff, and was forced to re -hire the staff of the agency responsible for the security of nuclear weapons in America.
DOGE also offered federal employees the possibility of resigning if they did not want to return full time, the White House predicting that up to 200,000 would be accepted. The program, which closed earlier this month, finally attracted 77,000 resignations.
Friday, Donald Trump dismissed General CQ Brown as president of the chiefs of staff joined alongside five other senior Pentagon officials. The Ministry of Defense also plans to reduce 5,400 probation employees next week.
The request for email on Saturday, which came from the Office of the Government of Staff Management, did not repeat the threat of online dismissal of Musk for non-compliance.
But Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government employees, said that his organization “would dispute the illegal layoffs of.. Federal employees”.
“Once again, Elon Musk and the Trump administration have shown their total disdain for federal employees and the critical services they provide to the American people,” he said.
“It is cruel and disrespectful towards hundreds of thousands of veterans who carry their second uniform in the public service to be forced to justify their functions of this billionaire out of contact, privileged and not elected who has never exercised a single Honest public service time in his life.
A spokesperson for the staff management office did not respond to a request for comments.
