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Elon Musk has warned US government employees that they have to find out what they worked for last week or confront the sack.
The billionaire posted on Saturday that “in accordance with the guidelines of the President @realdonaldtrump, all federal employees will soon receive an email seeking to understand what they got last week.”
The de facto leader of the so -called Government Efficiency Department added that “disrespect will be taken as resignation”.
A memorandum sent shortly thereafter by the US Government’s Human Resources Department, which was summarized for the Financial Times by some people, orders the government staff to respond with nearly five bullets for those that have reached Monday midnight .
It also encourages employees not to send any material classified to their answers.
Mass – which echoes the tactics used by Musk while taking on Twitter – came soon after a post from Donald Trump, in which he said the billionaire was “doing a great job but I would like to see it to become more aggressive. “
Musk’s Doge has already destroyed the main government departments, shattering hundreds of contracts and suspending tens of thousands of staff.
The Trump administration has faced some reactions to hunting veterans and cyber security staff, and was forced to reopen staff at the agency responsible for securing America’s nuclear weapons.
Doge also offered federal employees the opportunity to resign if they did not want to return to the full -time office, with the White House predicted that up to 200,000 would accept. The scheme, which closed earlier this month, eventually withdrew 77,000 resignations.
On Friday, Donald Trump fired General CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff along with five other senior Pentagon officials. The Defense Department also plans to cut 5,400 test workers from next week.
Saturday’s emails’ request, which came from the office of staff management government, did not repeat Musk’s internet threat to the completion of their disregard.
But Everett Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government employees, said his organization “would challenge any illegal conclusion of. Federal employees”.
“Once again, Elon Musk and the Trump administration have shown their full contempt for federal employees and critical services they offer to the American people,” he said.
“I am cruel and disrespectful to the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have worn their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their work tasks for this billionaire abroad, privileged, unseen, who never has performed a single hour of honest public service in his life. “
A spokesman for the staff management office did not respond to a comment request.
