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.

The American Federation of Government Employees responded to the email sent to federal employees with a statement expressing frustration. “Once again, Elon Musk and the Trump Ad

In an X post and email shared Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk told federal employees to list what they had accomplished the prior week or be fired.

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.

The Trump administration sent emails on Saturday evening to U.S. federal government employees telling them to detail their work accomplishments from the previous week by Monday night or risk losing their jobs.