Mr Musk’s unusual demand has faced resistance from several key US agencies led by the president's loyalists - including the FBI, State Department, Homeland Security and the Pentagon - which instructed their employees over the weekend not to comply.
Mr Musk’s team sent an email to hundreds of thousands of federal employees on Saturday giving them roughly 48 hours to report five specific things they had accomplished last week.
Pentagon leadership instructed employees to “pause” any response to Mr Musk’s team, according to an email from Jules Hurst, the deputy undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
Trump over the weekend called for Mr Musk to be more aggressive in his cost-cutting crusade through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and posted a meme on social media mocking federal employees who “cried about Trump and Elon”.
Having put in over 70 hours of work last week advancing Administration’s priorities, I was personally insulted to receive the below email,” Mr Keveney said in an email viewed by The Associated Press that acknowledged a broad sense of “uncertainty and stress” within the agency.
