A Saturday email from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort asking personnel what they had done in the previous week was ignored by key US departments in the Trump administration.
The Pentagon, the State Department, and the FBI were among the organisations that told staff members not to respond to the message. While some department heads ordered employees to wait for more instructions before responding, others encouraged employees to obey.
Musk stated that an employee would be considered to have resigned if they did not reply by Monday at midnight. Regarding the email, President Donald Trump has not yet responded.
As Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) task force spearheads an external initiative to drastically cut government spending, the contradictory directives confused hundreds of thousands of government personnel.
Following Musk’s announcement on his social media platform X that government employees would “shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” the message was distributed to millions of federal employees on Saturday night.
Employees were requested to respond with five bullet points outlining their successes over the previous week, excluding any secret information, according to a copy of the email that the BBC was able to get.
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