Elon Musk vows to fire U.S. federal workers, who fail to report achievements over the past week

Elon Musk, head of the Trump administration's efficiency department's billionaire, threatened on Saturday to fire any federal workers who failed to explain what they did last week.

The threat published in an article on Musk’s social media site X was a few hours after U.S. President Donald Trump posted on his own social media network truth social network, Doge The attempt to reduce and reshape the federal labor force should become more aggressive.

Musk posted on Twitter Musk posted on Twitter. “No response will be considered resignation.”

As of Saturday night, emails have been sent to staff at federal agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the subject line “What did you do last week?”

The emails seen by Reuters asked employees to respond to emails they received, with five points summarizing “the work you did at work last week” and copying their manager.

The email was provided to employees until Monday at 11:59 PM ET.

It is unclear whether Musk must terminate federal workers if they do not respond to his request, amid a fast-paced and controversial process by the Trump administration to reduce government spending to reduce federal labor.

Led by Musk and his young assistant under the threshold of cost-cutting, this process led to accidental shooting, leading to many mistakes and forced several agencies to quickly re-collect important employees, such as those engaged in nuclear safety, Defence and power generation staff.

The first wave of layoffs is aimed at workers who are more likely to be fired, such as “probation” employees who have been working for less than two years, or those who start a new role within the agency.

The indiscriminate shooting led to Dooger terminated those who did not fund jobs taxpayers and began to infuriate people across the country about the impact of loss of services and the loss of federal jobs on the local economy.

Trump has talked about Musk as the functional leader of Doge, which is not a cabinet-level department, but the White House said in court documents earlier this month that Musk has no power over Doge and is not the plan. employee.