Musk Gives all federal works 48 hours to explain what they did last week

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Hundreds of Thousands of Federal Workers Have Been Given Little more than 48 hours to explain what they accompled over the last week, Sparking Confusion Across Key Agency as Billionaire Expands Crusade to slash the size of federal government.

Mr. Musk, Who Serves as President Donald Trump’s Cost-Cutting Chief, Teased The Extraordinary Request on His Social Media Network on Saturday (February 22, 2025).

“Consistent with President @Realdonaldtrum’s Instructions, All Federal Employees Will Shortly Receive an email Requesing to Understand what they got done last week,” Musk posted on x, which he owns. “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

Shortly afterward, federal employees received a three-line email with this instruction: “Please reeply to this email with approx. 5 Bullets of What you accountible last week and cc your manager. “

The deadline to reply is Monday at 11:59 PM, ALTHALD NOT Include Musk’s Social Media Threat About that who Fail to Responds.

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The latest unusual directive from musk’s team injects a new sense of chaos across beeguered multiple agencies, include the National Weather Service and the State Department, AS SENIOR OCEFICIALS VOIROCED TO Verify the message’s authenticity saturday night and in some cases, instructed their employees not to respond.

Thousands of Government Employees Have Alarady Been Forced Out of the Federal Workforce – Eiters by Being Fired or Offred a Buyout – DURING THET MONT MONTH OF TRUMP ‘ So-Called Department of Government Efficiency Fire Both New and Career Workers, Tell Agency Leaders to Plan for “Large-Scale Reductions in Force” and Freeze Trillions in Federal Grant Funds.

There is no official Figure available for the total firings or layoffs so far, but The Associate Press Has Tallied Hundreds of Thousands of Workers who are being affected. Many work outside of washington. The cuts include Thousands at the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Health and Human Services, The Internal Revenue Service and the National Parks Service, Among other.

Afge President Everett Kelley Quickly Condemned The Ultimatum as an example of Trump and Musk’s “utter Disdain for Federal Employees and The Critical Services The Provide to the AMERICAN POOVLE.”

“It is cruel and disrespectful to hundreds of three veterans who are wearing their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-a-the-outs Uneelected Billionaire who has died one single hour of honest public service in his life, “Kelley said. across the country. “

Mr. Musk on Friday celebrated his new role at a gathering of conservatives by waving a giant chainsaw in the air. He called it “The Chainsaw for Bureaucracy” and said, “waste is pretty much everywahere” in the federal government.

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McLaurine Pinover, a spekesperson at the office of Personnel Management, Confirmed Musk’s Directive and Said That Individual Agency Today “Determine Any Next Steps.”

What Haappens If an Employee is on Leave or Vacation? Again, sheid individual agencies would determine how to proceed.

The National Weather Service Leadership Acknowledded Some Confusion in a Message to Employees Saturday Night.

“Within the last few hours, some of us – potentially all of us – received an email message titled ‘What did you do last week?’ UnTIL Such Time as We can verify that the message that was received at or around 4:46 pm Et is authentic, please do not respond. “

National Weather Service Leadership Continued: “Thank you all for your Continued support and dedication ensuring public safety and the national security of our counTry.”