Elon Musk threatens FBI agents and air traffic controllers with a forced resignation if they do not respond to an email

Elon Musk is leaving again its fingerprints about official communications from the federal government. In an email to the staff on Saturday afternoon, the staff management service, which is arranged with Musk loyalistsHe told the employees to send five points from the bullet where their manager had achieved in detail last week. “The failure to answer will be accepted as a resignation,” writes Musk at X.

This move comes after President Trump has announced that he wants Musk to be stronger. “Elon is doing a great job, but I would like to see him become more aggressive,” he wrote to Truth Social. “Remember that we have a country to save, but in the end to make more than ever. Mag! “

“I’ll do it, Mr. President!” Musk answered in a Post At X.

The note that is very similar to a note Musk sent Twitter employees in June 2023 states that employees should not include classified information, links or attachments in their answers. Wired has confirmed that employees at the Federal Investigation Bureau, Internal Revenue Service, National Health Institutes and Federal Aviation Administration, which are all engaged in classified information, have received similar notifications. The response deadline is Monday at 11:59 pm EST.

“They prove that their sole purpose is not efficiency, but to dismantle democracy by injuring federal workers,” says a current federal employee who has asked to remain anonymous as they are not authorized to speak publicly about their agency. “They see this as a video game in which they equal each time they injure or remove a federal worker.”

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has unsecured thousands of test officials who have only been in the federal government for one or two years. Initially, the abbreviations hit hundreds of people working on nuclear security, as well as veterans and employees of the Ministry of Agriculture, who are trying to give up a pandemic of bird flu. The so -called Ministry of Government Efficiency also effectively froze or tried to dismantle otherwise Agency for International Development of the United States and Consumer Financial Protection BureauS

It is unclear whether OPM has the power to force federal workers to resign if they do not respond to the email. “I do not know that anyone can judge what is legal at the moment, because the agencies who have to act as guards are being dismantled,” says Lori Burgess, a lawyer who represented a number of Twitter and SpaceX employees in labor disputes. She noted that this spring there are cases that will be heard before the National Board of Labor Relations and does not feel confident that the Council will still exist until this period.

Despite all the external statements that Musk rules its so -called agency, Says the White House He is not really the administrator of Dog. Technical Musk is a senior advisor. “Like other senior White House advisers, Musk has no actual or official body to make government decisions,” writes the Director of the White House Administration in OathS

Email’s topic to federal workers (“What did you do last week?”) A text that Elon Musk sent to the former CEO of Twitter Parag Agrawal in April 2022. At that time, Musk was considering joining the Twitter board, but the relationship He was beginning to fall apart. After the Executive Director reproached him for asking his followers if they thought Twitter was dying, Musk torn off: “What did you do this week? I’m not joining the board. It’s a waste of time. I’ll make an offer to accept Twitter Private.”

On Saturday, Musk doubled in this dispute. “Parag received nothing,” he published on X. “Parag was fired.”

Additional reporting by Aar Marshal and Emily Mulin.