Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week.

The conflict between DOGE and federal employees has taken a turn for the worse as Elon Musk has issued a new ultimatum: report what progress you’ve made or resign.

All federal workers will shortly receive an email asking what they did last week — and that if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation, Elon Musk wrote in a post on X Saturday. Musk wrote he was acting “consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions,