All federal employees will have to share what work they’ve accomplished in the last week or be fired, according to President Trump’s efficiency czar Elon Musk. 

“Consistent with President [Donald Trump’s]  instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Mr. Musk said on X on Saturday. “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” 

The email from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management went out to federal employees shortly after Mr. Musk’s tweet with the subject line “What did you do last week?”

Included in the email were instructions for employees to list “approx. five bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager,” and asks for federal workers to not list any classified information. Federal workers have until the end of Monday to respond.

However, Mr. Musk’s promise of termination for failure to comply appears nowhere in the email. 

The email follows the Trump administration’s push to shrink the federal workforce. What started with a deferred resignation for federal employees, which more than 77,000 accepted, morphed into a broad culling or probationary workers — federal employees in their first or second year of employment — across a broad swath of federal agencies. 

It also comes after Mr. Trump signed an executive order earlier this month that required federal agencies to work with Mr. Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to make “preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force.”

And most recently, the Pentagon announced on Friday that it planned to fire some 5,400 employees. 

While it’s unclear if Mr. Musk has the legal authority to carry out widespread terminations for federal workers who don’t meet the email’s criteria, his post comes after the president lauded his work and urged him to be “more aggressive.”

• Alex Miller can be reached at amiller@washingtontimes.com.