Billionaire Elon Musk stated in a social media put up Saturday that every one U.S. federal staff will likely be required to answer a Saturday electronic mail defending their jobs.
Musk, the unelected face of the brand new Division of Authorities Effectivity below President Donald Trump, has vowed to strip the federal government of its energy and far of its workforce.
“In keeping with President [Trump’s] directions, all federal workers will shortly obtain an electronic mail requesting to grasp what they obtained performed final week,” Musk stated in a put up on X, his social media web site, on Saturday afternoon. “Failure to reply will likely be taken as a resignation.”
The e-mail despatched to federal workers Saturday, with the topic line “What did you do final week?”, asks for staff to answer with “5 bullets of what you achieved final week and cc your supervisor.”
The e-mail provides that the deadline to reply is Monday at 11:59 p.m.
Musk’s put up and the e-mail don’t make clear how the doubtless lots of of hundreds of responses could be managed throughout many alternative departments, or who would decide whether or not somebody retains their job or not. The White Home didn’t reply to questions from JHB.
Whereas Musk demanded to understand how laborious others had been working, the person who spent $44 billion to purchase Twitter spent Saturday posting greater than 100 occasions on his platform. In a number of posts, he used a slur for folks with mental disabilities to explain liberals and in addition himself.
Musk’s put up might have been a response to an all-caps social media put up by Trump simply hours earlier telling Musk to step it up.
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“ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE,” Trump posted in all-caps on his social media web site, Fact Social. “REMEMBER, WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE, BUT ULTIMATELY, TO MAKE GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. MAGA!”
Beneath DOGE and Musk’s management, the federal workforce has been gutted by firings and layoffs. Within the newest instance on Friday, the Pentagon introduced plans to chop about 5,400 probationary staff beginning subsequent week, together with a hiring freeze.