Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been granted more than 48 hours to explain what they had accomplished during the past week, which sparked confusion through the main agencies as billionaire Illon Musk expands his engine to reduce the size of the federal government.
Mr. Musk, who is President Donald Trump to reduce costs, was the dignity of the extraordinary request on Saturday on the social media network.
“In line with the instructions of President @realdonaldtrum, all federal employees will soon receive an email requesting to understand what was done last week,” and Mr. Musk was published on X, who owns it. “The failure in the response will be considered resignation.”
Shortly later, Federal employees-including some judges, court employees and federal prisons-received an e-mail from three lines with these instructions: “Please respond to this email with approximately. 5 bullets for what you accomplished last week and CC your manager. “
The deadline for the response was included on Monday at 11:59 pm, although the email did not include a threat to Mr. Musk on social media about those who failed to respond.
Soon some agencies told employees that they had no compliance if they received a musk message.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will respond on behalf of the administration. There is no employee obligated to report his activities outside their department’s leadership chain,” according to an email from Tibor Nagy, the acting undersecretary of the Ministry of Administration, obtained by the Associated Press.
The latest unusual direction from the Mr. Musk team pumps a new feeling of chaos through multiple besieged agencies, including the national weather service, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the federal court system, where senior officials worked to verify the originality Not to respond.
Thousands of government employees have already been forced to get out of the federal workforce – either by launching or offering them to the acquisition – the first month of Mr. Trump’s administration, where the White House and the Ministry of Governmental Efficiency of Mr. Musk launches new and professional fire. The agency’s leaders told the planning for “large -scale discounts”, freezing trillion dollars from grant funds Federal.
There is no official number available for the total launch or demobilization of workers so far, but the Associated Press has achieved hundreds of thousands of workers affected. Many work outside Washington. Discounts include thousands in the sections of old warriors affairs, defense, health and humanitarian services, internal revenue service, and national gardens service, among other things.
The leaders of the trade union soon condemned the warning and threatening legal procedures.
Evere Kelly, President of the American Federation of Government Employees, described the new example of President Trump and “complete contempt for federal employees and critical services they provide to the American people.”
“It is a harsh and unlimited matter for hundreds of thousands of old warriors who wear their second costume in the civil service to force them to justify their job duties on this unprecedented billion . “You will challenge AFGE any illegal termination of our members and federal employees all over the country.”
On Friday, Mr. Musk celebrated its new role in a gathering of conservatives by waving the giant saw in the air. It was called “Al -Manas for the bureaucracy” and said: “The waste is largely everywhere” in the federal government.
McClorin Benove, the official spokesman for the Personnel Management Office, confirmed that Mr. Musk was directed and said that individual agencies “will determine which of the following steps.”
What happens if the employee is on vacation or leave? Again, she said individual agencies will determine how to follow up.
In a letter to the employees on Saturday night, federal court officials ordered the beneficiaries not to respond.
“We understand that some judges and judiciary have received an email … The recipient directs to respond with 5 achievements from the previous week. The officials wrote that this email did not arise from the judiciary or the administrative office and we suggest that no action take.”
American boycott judge Randolph Daniel Moss said earlier this month that judges throughout the country obtained email messages from Mr. Musk team in late January, and it appears that the American boycott judge Randolph Daniel Moss earlier this month. Moss said that he also got a message and ignored it.
The National Weather Service Command admitted some confusion in a letter to its employees late Saturday as well.
“During the past few hours, some of us – all of us have received an email entitled” What did you do last week? “Until the time we can check that the message that was received at or about 4:46 pm East time is authentic, please do not respond.”
The National Weather Service continued: “Thank you all for your continuous support and dedication to ensure public safety and national security for our country.”
This story was reported by Associated Press.
In this report, this report, the Associated Press Matthew Lee, Seth Bournenstein, Chris Mujerian, Matthew Lee, Lindsay Whithorest, Michael Cisac, and Matthew Peron in Washington.
