The White House announced on Tuesday that Cabinet secretaries and federal agency leaders will make the ultimate decision regarding how to follow the directive from President Donald Trump’s top adviser Elon Musk instructing federal workers to list their accomplishments in the last week to their supervisors via email or face termination.
Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, wrote in a social media post last week that “Consistent with [Trump’s] instructions, 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.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt walked this announcement back on Tuesday, saying that Trump “defers to his Cabinet secretaries who he’s obviously entrusted to pursue the guidance relative to their specific workforce.”
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