All federal workers will shortly receive an email asking what they did last week — and that if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation, Elon Musk wrote in a post on X Saturday. Musk wrote he was acting “consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions,

The threat, issued in a post on the social media site X, was made just hours after President Donald Trump posted on his own social media network Truth Social that DOGE should get more aggressive in its attempts to downsize and reshape the federal workforce.

After Twitter/X owner Elon Musk lost his own position as CEO of the social media platform back in December 2022 thanks to a poll on the platform, you would think the billionaire - now a close ally of US president Donald Trump as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) – would steer clear of letting the masses make big decisions

Musk caused alarm among federal employees over an email sent on Saturday requesting that employees summarize their work.