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“Cruel and Disrespectful”: Union Slams Musk Email to Gov’t Staff; Workers Told to Ignore Request

HeadlineFeb 24, 2025

On Saturday, Elon Musk sent an email to 2.3 million federal workers with the subject line “What did you do last week?” The email instructed workers to respond with “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.” Musk then publicly warned that employees risk losing their jobs for failure to respond by today. Several key agencies, including the FBI, State Department and Pentagon, have told workers not to respond. Everett Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said, “It is cruel and disrespectful for federal employees to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest public service in his life.”

In related news, the Trump administration fired about 2,000 workers at USAID. Thousands more are being put on paid leave amid efforts to dismantle the agency.

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