Billionaire Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to Federal workers within the U.S. government receiving an email on February 22nd in the afternoon, asking them to account for what they did in the past week and to document it.
Elon Musk allegedly mentioned in the email that those who didn’t reply would be at risk of losing their jobs. However, multiple agencies, according to a CBS NEWS article, told workers to ignore the request and not to reply. ( Smolinski , Feb, 22, 25 ).
The emails, stated in an NPR article, had arrived several hours after Elon, the person who’s leading the Department of Government Efficiency team, also responsible for the mass firings of at most 20,000 U.S government workers within the past month, gave notice about the apparent situation. ( Bowman, Feb, 22, 25 ).
The email’s subject title, which was seen by Business Insider and written into one of their articles, read, ” What did you do last week? ” ( Dorman , Feb, 22, 25 ).
” Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager, ” the message sent from the OPM’s HR email address wrote. ” Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. Deadline is the Monday at 11:59pmEST. ”
Elon Musk wrote a post on X, formally know as Twitter, regarding the email, being fully accessible on his X page. ( @elonmusk , Feb, 22, 25 ).
“ Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation, ” Musk wrote in the tweet.
In a letter addressed to the Office of Personnel Management and in a NBC NEWS article, Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., who serves as the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, deemed Musk’s threat as “ illegal, reckless, and yet another instance of the arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk is imposing on the government and its devoted public servants. ” ( , Feb, 22, 25 ).
