Federal workers will have to document everything they did last week or face resignation.
These instructions come from a Saturday afternoon post on by Elon Musk, the head of the White House’s聽, or DOGE.
Federal employees received a three-line email with this instruction: 鈥淧lease reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.鈥�
The deadline to respond is Monday at 11:59 p.m.
“Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Musk added.
President Trump earlier in the day posted on saying that Musk is doing a great job in reducing the federal government and that he would like to see him get more aggressive in the pursuit.
“Remember, we have a country to save, but ultimately, to make greater than before,” he wrote.
Musk seemed to have responded with his new demand of federal workers to explain their work or risk losing their jobs. He called it consistent with the president’s instructions.
The White House has not responded to CBS News’ requests for comment.
Since Mr. Trump tapped Musk聽聽DOGE, Musk’s team聽聽slashing thousands of federal positions across numerous agencies. DOGE has also stoked controversy聽聽to sensitive government data.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
