President Trump’s efficiency czar Elon Musk has told all federal employees to share what work they’ve accomplished in the last week or be fired, a directive that is meeting with resistance from new FBI Director Kash Patel and a major federal workers’ union.

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency make a new attempt to cut government spending and reduce the federal workforce.

Elon Musk is doubling down on an email sent to all federal workers over the weekend demanding they list their accomplishments from the past week or risk losing their jobs.

But the biggest surprise may have been the federal officials—including a couple of Trump loyalists—who sought to guard their own turf from Musk, even by quickly telling their staff to essentially ignore the email, because Musk is not their boss.

In an X post and email shared Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk told federal employees to list what they had accomplished the prior week or resign.

Millions of federal employees are heading into their workweek caught between differing factions of the Trump administration.

Officials at multiple US government departments offered staff conflicting guidance on how to respond to a Saturday email touted by Trump adviser Elon Musk requesting they list their accomplishments from the past week.