President Donald Trump and billionaire businessman Elon Musk are making another attempt to get answers from the government workforce, and federal employees should anticipate receiving another email on Saturday asking them to explain their recent accomplishments.
A individual with knowledge of the issue revealed the idea, but they asked to remain anonymous because they were not permitted to speak about it in public.
Employees were asked in the first email, which was sent out a week ago, what they had done the previous week. and asked them to enumerate five things they had finished. Musk, who has been given more authority by Trump and wants to reduce government agencies and thousands of federal jobs, threatened to fire anyone who didn’t reply. In the meantime, numerous agencies gave contradictory instructions or instructed their employees not to reply.
According to the source with knowledge of the matter, the second email will be sent in a different manner, which could make disciplining staff members for disobedience simpler.
The emails will be issued by specific agencies that have direct control over career officials rather than the Office of Personnel Management, which serves as the federal government’s human resources department but lacks the authority to recruit or fire.
The Washington Post was the first to report on the proposal.
How national security services will respond to the second email is unknown. Since a large portion of the agencies’ work is classified or confidential, they instructed staff members not to write back after the first one. The White House said fewer than half of federal employees answered.
Shortly before the Monday answer deadline, the Office of Personnel Management finally informed agency leaders that the request was optional, but it did leave the door open for future requests of this nature.
Musk claimed that his request was a pulse check to make sure that government employees have two neurons and a pulse during Wednesday’s first Cabinet meeting of Trump’s second term.
Trump has openly supported Musk’s strategy, while Musk has asserted that some workers are either imaginary or deceased.
Trump told those who didn’t reply to the initial email that they were on the bubble and that he wasn’t happy with their lack of response.
“Now, perhaps they don’t exist,” he stated without offering any proof. Perhaps we are paying nonexistent people.
Along with the recent terminations of probationary staff, a document that was disseminated this week paved the way for widespread program reorganization and layoffs.
