Elon Musk said that blanket emails sent to federal staff who want an answer for their weekly achievements or termination of risk is a test to see if they “have a pulse”.
The technical billionaire set by President Donald Trump by cutting bureaucracy and federal expenses through his Ministry of Government Efficiency, writes on his platform X on Friday that all civil servants will receive an email demanding that it has been achieved last week.
The workers were reported to receive the email on Saturday afternoon from the staff management service with the subject line “What did you do last week?” The time given to respond, according to the emails reviewed by Reuters, was 23:59 EST on Monday. Failure to do with the answer will be “accepted as a resignation”, twin Musk.
Less than 24 hours before the deadline, Musk hinted that emails were simply rude to ensure that federal officials were “capable of responding” to his correspondence.
In the early hours of Monday morning, Musk responded to American risk capitalist Gary Tan to X after sharing a publication that claims that Dodge will not be able to read all the answers to the federal workers, calling the “Stupid” and “Art” initiative. “
Musk said he was checking if federal officials had a “pulse” with its extensive emails asking for response or risk of being discontinued (AP)
“Most people do not understand LLM have already changed the nature of management and it will be a little shock to the people,” Tantizes Tang on Sunday night, talking about large language models: type of machine learning model designed to process large data sets S
Musk replied that LLM would not be needed for his task.
“It was generally a check to see if the employee has a pulse and is able to answer email,” Musk said. “This mess will be arranged this week. Many people for gross awakening and a strong dose of reality. They still don’t understand it, but they will. “
On Sunday afternoon, Musk also cited emails as “very basic pulse check”. That evening, Musk added that the answer was indicative that employees had “two working neurons”.
As of Saturday night, employees in several agencies – including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the National Ocean and the Atmosphere and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – have received emails, Reuters reports.
When asked for a comment, speak OPM speaker Independent that “agencies will determine all the next steps,” after employees respond.
“As part of the Trump administration’s commitment to an effective and responsible federal workforce, OPM asks employees to provide a brief summary of what they did last week until the end of Monday, CC’ing their manager,” the spokesman said.
Musk, filmed next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Cabinet earlier this month, was confronted with a reaction from senior agency officials because of his “What did you do last week?” Emails (AP)
A breakdown appeared on Sunday night between the leaders of the Trump and Musk agency after leaders in the FBI, Pentagon, State Department, Ministry of Interior Security and the Ministry of Energy, instructed employees not to respond to the OPM email.
Some managers, including the Ministry of Health and Human Services, have instructed workers to comply with the request to send a list of five achievements from last week to a generic government email address, only to the back course. While others just told their employees to wait until Monday – and not to answer the note before.
“Extremely disturbing that some parts of the government think this is too much !!” Musk twists on Sunday. “What’s wrong with them ??”
Senior officials worked to provide guidance on employees how to continue, including the freshly confirmed FBI Kash Patel, calling on the employees to “pause the answers”.
The emails threw the Ministry of Defense into chaos over the weekend as they tried to determine what to tell employees how to react, many senior officials told CNN.