
Some US agencies tell federal workers to ignore Musk email
Al JazeeraBillionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk emailed federal workers asking them to list what they had done last week. Several US federal agencies told employees not to respond to a demand by President Donald Trump’s adviser Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the last week or be fired. Following Musk’s move, Trump administration-appointed officials at the FBI and State Department sent their staff emails telling them not to respond outside their chains of command, in a possible sign of tension between allies of the Republican president and the world’s richest person in his campaign to cut down the government’s 2.3 million member civilian workforce. In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used… https://t.co/Rj5Xe6vYZB — Elon Musk February 23, 2025 “The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!” Musk also wrote.
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