Billionaire Elon Musk, who’s slashing wasteful authorities spending with the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), stated federal employees who fail to answer his productiveness e mail could also be given one other probability, however warned in the event that they fail to reply a second time, they’re going to be terminated.
The Workplace of Personnel Administration (OPM) despatched an e mail titled, “What did you do final week?” to federal staff, calling on them to submit 5 bullet factors detailing their accomplishments over the previous week, or face attainable termination.
A number of businesses, together with the Division of Protection (DOD) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), responded to the request, telling their staff to disregard the OPM e mail.
Musk gave the impression to be fired up by the shortage of response to the request, turning to X to precise his frustration simply hours earlier than the 11:59 p.m. Monday deadline.
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“The e-mail request was totally trivial, as the usual for passing the take a look at was to kind some phrases and press ship!” he wrote. “But so many failed even that inane take a look at, urged on in some circumstances by their managers. Have you ever ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for a way YOUR TAXES are being spent? Makes outdated Twitter look good. Didn’t assume that was attainable.”
Musk responded to a put up by Matt Walsh, host of “The Matt Walsh Present,” saying the federal government ought to hearth any federal employee who didn’t reply the e-mail, complained publicly or privately in regards to the e mail or did something aside from reply it promptly.
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“Topic to the discretion of the President, they are going to be given one other probability,” Musk responded. “Failure to reply a second time will lead to termination.”
When Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, he known as on the social media large’s former CEO Parag Agrawal to element what he achieved in the course of the work week — years earlier than he employed the identical tactic on federal staff whereas serving in his capability as chair of DOGE underneath the Trump administration.
“What did you get achieved this week,” Musk texted Agrawal in April 2022.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tasked Elon Musk with making cuts in wasteful authorities spending by main the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE). (Brandon Bell/Getty Pictures)
Musk helped resurrect the textual content trade over the weekend on X, when he responded to an account that shared a “the way it began, the way it’s going” put up that confirmed a screenshot of Musk’s textual content to Agrawal, accompanied by a screenshot of a put up on X from Musk on Saturday, directed at federal staff.
Within the put up, Musk wrote, “Parag received nothing achieved. Parag was fired.”
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“In step with President @realDonaldTrump’s directions, all federal staff will shortly obtain an e mail requesting to grasp what they received achieved final week,” Musk wrote on X on Saturday. “Failure to reply shall be taken as a resignation.”
“To be clear, the bar could be very low right here,” Musk wrote. “An e mail with some bullet factors that make any sense in any respect is suitable! Ought to take lower than 5 minutes to jot down.”
Musk’s DOGE is within the midst of auditing numerous federal businesses searching for wasteful spending, corruption and mismanagement.
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DOGE’s work comes as President Donald Trump ordered the federal workforce to return to the workplace after 5 years of distant work stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, and has vowed to wash home of dangerous actors inside the authorities and axe overspending.
Fox Information Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
