“If you don’t answer … you are discharged”: Trump stands behind men’s e -Stand for Productivity Doge

President Donald Trump They warned that federal employees who do not follow new guidelines that require that they report personal productivity can lose their jobs.

The effort stems from the e -ate that the Executive Director of the Spacex -Tesla Elon Musk led by the federal workers to send the E -Federal Details on Monday with detailed details on what the tasks did the previous week. Musk leads the newly created efficiency of the Ministry of Government (Doge) aimed at reducing government waste and fraud.

“I thought it was great,” Trump told reporters about the initiative on Monday in the White House, “because we have people who don’t show up at work and no one even know if they work for the government. So, by asking the question, ‘tell us what you did this week ‘, what [Musk is] Saying, “Are you actually working?” If you do not answer, you are somehow semi-paid or discharged, because many people do not answer because they do not exist at all. “

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On Saturday, Musk presented the E -Station in the post on X and warned that the failure to respond is equivalent to the resignation surrender.

“In accordance with the instructions of the President @Reldonalddrdrump, all federal employees will soon get the E -hate in search of understanding what they have done last week,” Musk wrote on X. “The failure to answer will be taken as a resignation.”

Federal employees received on Saturday E -Stand from the Staff and Administration Office who instructed them to give a list of five things that achieved the previous week to a deadline from 11:59 pm on Monday.

The US Federation of Government employees, union for federal workers, criticized politics and said that Trump and his administration once again showed “extreme contempt” to federal employees.

“It is also cruel to disrespect that federal employees are forced to justify their work duties to this extraordinary, privileged, unimited billionaire who has never performed a single hour of honest public service in his life,” US Federation of Government employees of government employees National President Everett Kelley said on Saturday a statement.

The Federation will “challenge any illegal interruptions of our members and federal employees throughout the country,” Kelley said.

Dod tells civil labor force to neglect Elon Musk’s request to report productivity

In the meantime, several agencies have issued instructions that tell their employees to neglect Musk guidelines.

For example, the Ministry of Defense issued a letter to its civil staff, claiming on Sunday that Pentagon’s autonomy and directs employees to neglect Musk’s request to send details about their working week at the Staff Management Office.

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“The DOD staff may have received the E -OPM asking for information,” wrote Darin Selnick, who performs the duties of Podsekretar defense for staff and willingness. “The Ministry of Defense is responsible for reviewing the effect of its staff and will conduct any review in accordance with its own actions.

“When and if necessary, the department will coordinate the answers to the e -auction you received from the OPM,” he wrote. “For now, please stop any response to the E -a OPM entitled:” What did you do last week. “

FBI Director Kash Patel issued a similar directive to his staff and said that the Agency “would conduct reviews in accordance with the FBI procedures,” said Associated Press.

Doge, who is in charge of removing the government’s excessive spending, faces several lawsuits of government employees who want to challenge men’s efforts at the audit of various federal agencies.

Fox News’ Greg Wehner, Jennifer Griffin and Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.