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

Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Elon Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

Musk initially said the request was a 'very basic pulse check,' but now says it will root out 'non-existent people or...dead people' who are collecting paychecks. Several agencies are telling employees to ignore the email for now.

Musk posted on X Saturday that all federal employees must report "what they got done last week" at work, and that failure to reply will be considered a resignation.

Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.

In a sign that not every Trump official is on the same page, leaders at the FBI and State Department instructed employees not to respond.

A group of current and former federal workers have launched a platform to combat the Department of Government Efficiency, a temporary organization established through an executive order by President Donald Trump.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Sunday the email to federal employees asking them to report back on their weekly accomplishments is meant to spot “outright fraud” from people on the payroll who