Elon Musk is 'running the Twitter playbook on the government,' after writing in a Saturday post on X that all federal employees will be receiving an email "shortly" requesting to "understand what they got done last week."

Those who fail to reply "will be taken as a resignation."

And there it is (though no mention of the implied resignations for failure to respond):

When X user 'The Rabbit Hole' commented that Musk is "running the Twitter playbook on the government," Musk replied: "It works."

The post came hours after President Donald Trump encouraged Musk to "get more aggressive" with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), adding "REMEMBER, WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE."

Musk's email comes after roughly 77,000 federal employees accepted DOGE's "Fork in the Road" email offering roughly 8 months of pay in exchange for resigning. After that, DOGE moved to fire thousands of employees across various agencies - mostly those in a probationary period who have been in their jobs for less than one year.

It also comes after the Trump administration scored a legal victory when a judge allowed Musk and crew to continue accessing federal data and arranging for mass layoffs.

Last week, Trump signed an executive order directing agencies to work with DOGE to make "preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force."

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