Elon Musk says all US government workers must justify their work or lose jobs

Elon Musk, the billionaire adviser to Donald Trump, said on Saturday that all federal employees must justify their work or lose their jobs, hours after the US president pushed him to be “more aggressive” in slashing government spending.

Musk – the world’s richest person and Trump’s biggest donor – has led the effort to fire swathes of the government workforce.

“All federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Musk wrote.

According to a copy of the email provided to Agence France-Presse, federal workers were asked to submit “approx 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week”.

The email came from the US Office of Personnel Management, with the subject line “What did you do last week?”. The deadline to reply was 11.59pm on Monday, though the message did not say failure to do so would lead to termination.

Earlier on Saturday, Trump said on social media that Musk was “doing a great job, but I would like to see him get more aggressive.”

  

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