Billionaire Elon Musk mentioned in a social media submit Saturday that every one U.S. federal employees might be required to answer a Saturday e-mail defending their jobs.
Musk, the unelected face of the brand new Division of Authorities Effectivity beneath President Donald Trump, has vowed to strip the federal government of its energy and far of its workforce.
“In line with President [Trump’s] directions, all federal staff will shortly obtain an e-mail requesting to grasp what they received achieved final week,” Musk mentioned in a submit on X, his social media website, on Saturday afternoon. “Failure to reply might be taken as a resignation.”
The email sent to federal employees Saturday, with the topic line “What did you do final week?”, asks for employees 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 submit and the e-mail don’t make clear how the doubtless lots of of 1000’s of responses can be managed throughout many various departments, or who would decide whether or not somebody retains their job or not. The White Home didn’t reply to questions from HuffPost.
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 describe liberals and also himself.
Musk’s submit could have been a response to an all-caps social media submit 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, Truth Social. “REMEMBER, WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE, BUT ULTIMATELY, TO MAKE GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. MAGA!”
Beneath DOGE and Musk’s leadership, the federal workforce has been gutted by firings and layoffs. Within the newest instance on Friday, the Pentagon announced plans to chop about 5,400 probationary employees beginning subsequent week, together with a hiring freeze.
