Trump officials list 5 weekly accomplishments ahead of Musk midnight deadline

This mess will get sorted out this week,

Musk wrote

Pete Sessionsrepublican Congressman

The guy in South Africa is not doing you any good – he’s hurting you more than he’s helping,

the man told Sessions at a community meeting, drawing applause, the New York Times reported

The starting point here is it makes a lot of sense, in theory, to go and ask all the employees what they‘re doing,

Stelter said on "Inside Politics" Monday

Brian Stelterjournalist

And I think we should recognize to a lot of Americans, this makes perfect sense, right? Tell us what you did last week. What are your accomplishments? Lots of people are used to doing that in their jobs,

Stelter said

Just got this email. Where do we begin?"

the White House’s Rapid Response X account posted Saturday evening, accompanied by a screenshot of the OPM email informing employees to comply with the accomplishment directive

There was a lot of genius in sending it,

Trump said Monday from the White House

4. Visited the Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia to see the critical tech upgrades we need to make our air traffic system the envy of the world. 5. Toured Burbank, California traffic control tower and heard from air traffic controllers about how to improve conditions and retain and recruit more controllers."

He continued

When and if required, the Department will coordinate responses to the email you have received from OPM,

he wrote

If you don’t answer, like, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired,

Trump said

I thought it was great,

Trump told reporters of the initiative Monday at the White House

Donald Trumppresident

I think everyone thought it was a pretty ingenious idea. We have to find out where these people are. Who are they? And we said, 'If you don't respond, we assume you're not around, and you're not getting paid anymore, too.'

President Donald Trump praised the OPM email and Elon Musk at a Monday press conference

Josh Marshallchief

Pursuant to updated OPM guidance, responses to the email from sender "HR" dated Saturday, February 22, are voluntary."

Marshall shared the following quote from the purported email

If people don’t respond, it’s very possible that there is no such person or they’re not working,

Trump said Monday during an appearance alongside French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House

Gerry Connollymember

This threat is illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk is inflicting on the people’s government and its dedicated public servants,

wrote Connolly, whose Virginia district includes many federal employees

Wow I hope there is not a mass response, especially a 'reply all' response, that would jam up the email systems,

one user wrote

Flood their system with asinine answers for their asinine email,

a Redditor instructed

These are real people. These are real lives. These are mortgages,

Curtis said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

You get a lot of these people that maybe aren't as familiar (with government) working for Elon who aren't familiar with the agencies and who's what and sends it out,

Cleveland, who retired from the Border Patrol in April 2022, added

I was shocked as well, seeing that it went out to Border Patrol,

retired Border Patrol Chief and current border sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland told DailyMail.com in a phone interview Monday

The OPM message reflects an effort to increase accountability by the federal workforce, just as there is in the private sector,

John York, a senior counselor to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, wrote in one of the emails