Federal workers received an email Saturday afternoon asking them to list their accomplishments from the past week or resign – the latest development in the Trump administration’s efforts targeting the federal workforce.
The emails came after billionaire and Trump confidante Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that workers would “shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week”.
“Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” he wrote.
Musk has been leading an outside effort to aggressively curtail government spending through aggressive funding cuts and firings.
The email arrived in inboxes shortly after President Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac). The messages came with the subject line “What did you do last week?” from a sender listed as HR.
In a copy of the email obtained by the BBC, employees were asked to explain their accomplishments from the past week in five bullet points – without disclosing classified information – before Monday at midnight.
The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human resources agency, confirmed the emails were authentic in a statement to CBS, the BBC’s US news partner.
“As part of the Trump Administration’s commitment to an efficient and accountable federal workforce, OPM is asking employees to provide a brief summary of what they did last week by the end of Monday, CC’ing their manager. Agencies will determine any next steps.”
Earlier in the day, President Donald Trump touted cuts and told a crowd of supporters at Cpac that the work of federal employees was inadequate because they did not come into the office.
The Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) is not an official government department, but Musk’s team has exacted wide-ranging changes to the US federal infrastructure with approval from the White House.
Thousands of government employees at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as other agencies, have been fired in recent weeks.
The email mirrors Musk’s handling of employees after he acquired social media platform Twitter in 2022. As the staff there shrunk under his ownership, he issued ultimatums that included a now-infamous request to commit to being “extremely hardcore” at work or resign.
Trump has repeatedly applauded Musk’s cost-cutting measures.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said that Musk is doing a “great job” in reducing the size of the federal government and that he would like to see him “get more aggressive” in the pursuit.
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