Elon Musk is informing national workers who haven't returned to in-person enactment successful compliance with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Trump administration's enforcement bid volition look consequences.
Musk connected Monday wrote a station connected X that said national workers who aren't backmost successful the bureau this week volition beryllium enactment connected leave.
"Those who ignored President Trump's enforcement bid to instrumentality to enactment person present received implicit a month's warning," Musk wrote successful effect to a clip of Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., connected Fox News. "Starting this week, those who inactive neglect to instrumentality to bureau volition beryllium placed connected administrative leave."
President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid connected Inauguration Day that instructed the heads of each national departments and agencies to "as soon arsenic practical, instrumentality each indispensable steps to terminate distant enactment arrangements and necessitate employees to instrumentality to enactment in-person astatine their respective stations connected a full-time basis, provided that the section and bureau heads shall marque exemptions they deem necessary."
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Musk and DOGE implicit the play sent emails to workers crossed the federal government instructing them to reply with a five-bullet-point database of accomplishments to amusement what they did astatine enactment past week with a deadline of 11:59 p.m. Monday.
"Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, each national employees volition soon person an email requesting to recognize what they got done past week," Musk wrote. "Failure to respond volition beryllium taken arsenic a resignation."
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He wrote successful a follow-up station connected Saturday that "the barroom is precise low" and added an "email with immoderate slug points that marque immoderate consciousness astatine each is acceptable! Should instrumentality little than 5 mins to write."
The email spurred disorder among the national workforce and respective agencies instructed their workers not to reply to the DOGE team's email that was sent done the Office of Personnel Management.
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In a missive to Department of Defense (DoD) personnel, Darin S. Selnick, who is performing the duties of the undersecretary of defence for unit and readiness, provided guidance connected however to grip Musk's demand.
"DoD unit whitethorn person received an email from OPM requesting information. The Department of Defense is liable for reviewing the show of its unit and it volition behaviour immoderate reappraisal successful accordance with its ain procedures," Selnick wrote. "When and if required, the Department volition coordinate responses to the email you person received from OPM. For now, delight intermission immoderate effect to the OPM email titled, ‘What did you bash past week.’"
FBI Director Kash Patel told the agency's workers not to respond successful a enactment archetypal reported by ABC News, saying the FBI's Office of the Director "is successful complaint of each reappraisal processes, and volition behaviour reviews successful accordance with FBI procedures. When and if further accusation is required, we volition coordinate the responses. For now, delight intermission immoderate responses."
Workers astatine the State Department were told successful a follow-up email that "no worker is obligated to study their activities extracurricular their Department concatenation of command."
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The American Federation of Government Employees labor union said it plans to "challenge immoderate unlawful terminations of our members and national employees crossed the country."
Fox News' Greg Wehner, Jennifer Griffin and Landon Mion contributed to this report.
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