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.

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,

All federal government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday. Musk posted on X that employees will be receiving an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.