Musk fumed—and issued another threat—after federal workers were told they didn't have to comply with a demand to justify their jobs.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is asking federal employees to detail in an email what they did last week or resign. Despite Musk claiming no response would be considered a resignation,

Federal unions have filed a lawsuit challenging the Office of Personnel Management’s directive requiring federal employees to submit accomplishments. Originally aimed at blocking mass firings by the Trump administration,

OPM also instructed multiple HR departments that failure to reply to the email did not mean automatic termination — despite the Tesla and Space X boss’ warning to the contrary.

Multiple major agencies, including the FBI, State Department and Pentagon, have directed employees not to respond to Musk’s email.

The lawmakers said in a letter that agency heads should immediately tell staffers to not respond to OPM’s “ill-conceived email stunt” asking them what they accomplished last week.

Leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is telling employees not to respond to directions from an Elon Musk-guided email, which asks each worker in the federal government to | Elon Musk is facing a lawsuit from federal workers over a mass email requiring government employees to list productive tasks from the prior week or risk termination.