Sun, 23 Feb 2025

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 List weekly accomplishments or resign, Musk tells US federal workers

The weekend email comes as Elon Musk leads an effort to aggressively curtail the government workforce.

* US government workers received an email on Saturday afternoon asking them to list their accomplishments from the past week or resign.
* The email, sent by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was confirmed as authentic by the OPM in a statement to CBS News.
* Employees were asked to explain their accomplishments in five bullet points without disclosing classified information before midnight on Monday.
* The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) criticized the message as "cruel and disrespectful" and vowed to challenge any "unlawful terminations" of federal employees.
* Elon Musk's team has been leading an outside effort to aggressively curtail government spending through funding cuts and firings, with thousands of government employees already being fired in recent weeks.
* The email mirrors Musk's handling of employees after he acquired social media platform Twitter (now called X) in 2022.
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