Elon Musk says federal employees must fill out productivity reports or resign

Tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that each national employees are being instructed to study their productivity successful a caller Trump medication initiative.

In a station Saturday on X, Musk said the study volition travel successful the signifier of an email that volition springiness national workers a accidental to study however productive they were the erstwhile week.

If the email is ignored, Musk said, the national authorities volition construe that arsenic a resignation.

"Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, each national employees volition soon person an email requesting to recognize what they got done past week," Musk wrote. "Failure to respond volition beryllium taken arsenic a resignation."

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The station came arsenic Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues slashing suspected discarded crossed the national government. In an X station Tuesday, DOGE said it discovered 4 cardinal progressive recognition cards connected the U.S. government's books.

"The US authorities presently has ~4.6M progressive recognition cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unsocial transactions for  ~$40B of spend[ing] successful FY24," DOGE said successful a station connected X Tuesday. 

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President Donald Trump has been supportive of Musk's enactment with DOGE. On Saturday, Trump wrote connected Truth Social that though Musk is "doing a large job," helium should beryllium "more aggressive."

"ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE. REMEMBER, WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE, BUT ULTIMATELY, TO MAKE GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. MAGA!," Trump wrote.

Musk responded with an enthusiastic "Will do, Mr. President!" hours aft Trump posted. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House for further comment.

Fox News Digital's Michael Lee and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.