‘What did you do last week?’: Elon Musk’s DOGE sends brutal email ultimatum to government workers

‘What did you do last week?’: Elon Musk’s DOGE sends brutal email ultimatum to government workers

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US civil servants who have survived several brutal rounds of mass sackings now have to justify what they did last week — or risk joining the growing slush pile of unemployed workers.

In the latest tactic to cut down on the government’s workforce, Elon Musk has demanded that federal staffers document in detail what they did last week to help him decide who should stay and who should go.

And if they fail to report in, that will trigger an automatic resignation.

“What did you do last week?” was the subject line of the alarming email workers received in their inbox on Saturday local time, going on to reply to the email with five bullet points of achievements over the past five days.

At time of writing, roughly three per cent of America’s 2.3 million-strong civil servant workforce has been slashed under Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, abbreviated to DOGE.

Critics have previously called out President Trump for giving Mr Musk near “unrivalled” power to reduce and even shut down government departments as he sees fit.

On Saturday afternoon local time, Mr Musk posted the ultimatum to workers on his own platform, X.

“Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” he wrote.

“Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

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