Govt staff must detail workweek or lose jobs: Musk

Elon Musk deepened the confusion and alarm of workers across the federal government Saturday by ordering them to summarize their accomplishments for the week, warning that a failure to do so would be taken as a resignation.

- Kate Conger, Eileen Sullivan & Christina Jewett

Shortly after Musk's demand, which he posted on X, civil servants across the government received an email from the Office of Personnel Management with the subject line, "What did you do last week?"

The missive simultaneously hit inboxes across multiple agencies, rattling workers who had been rocked by layoffs in recent weeks and were unsure about whether to respond to Musk's demand. Officials at some agencies, including the FBI and the State Department, told their employees to pause responses to the email.

Musk's mounting pressure on the federal workforce came at the encouragement of President Trump, who has been trumpeting how the billionaire has upended the bureaucracy and on Saturday urged him to be even "more aggressive."