(American Political Report)—The hammer is coming down on wasteful federal employees who cannot justify their taxpayer funded salaries. Elon Musk announced on X that he is asking every federal employee what they did last week. Failure to respond will be considered a resignation.
As he noted on X, this is consistent with President Trump’s instructions, though we do not know what those instructions actually were. It could be as simple as to find a way to drastically reduce the federal workforce legally, in which case this should do the trick.
His post:
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.
Considering the simplicity of the demand and the ease by which federal employees can save their jobs, it seems like a solid plan. After all, Musk isn’t going to be reading the millions of emails he receives, though the DOGE team may be able to filter out standard responses to isolate the ones that are aggressive in nature.
On the surface, this appears to be a straightforward way to cut the workforce. Many will not reply. Others may think nobody will read them and could reply nonsensically or angrily.
Whatever happens, this is a good move to figure out who’s interested in continuing to work for the federal government and who isn’t cut out for it.
