Elon Musk, who is leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts to remove waste from the federal workforce, has emailed Minnesota Democrats asking government employees to document their work. After branding “bullying,” he took a jab with Senator Tina Smith. Results.
Musk explained his work last weekend by sending workers an email instructing advocates of the vast bureaucracy to reply to last week’s five bullet lists.
Mask tweeted that he could not reply to emails “It will be considered a resignation.”
It coincides with the president @RealdonaldTrumpIn the instructions, all federal employees will soon receive an email requesting a request to understand what they did last week.
Failure to respond is considered a resignation.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2025
Smith spoke On TMZ The outlet then described her statement as “using his powers and using jerks to label not only the bully, but his actions as indeed harassment.”
Imagine that – management asks employees to explain why they work there.
Elon Musk fights back
Senator Smith writes to X that Elon Musk has pulled away the ultimate “penis movement” and points out that he has one of the more childish reactions to the whole ordeal.
“This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk. He’s just a penis except that he’s not even a boss,” she wrote, clearly sought approval from the previous Democrat base. It’s there.
This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk. He’s not even a boss, he’s just a penis. pic.twitter.com/3fss2ud7cz
– Senator Tina Smith (@sentinasmith) February 23, 2025
“I think a lot of people have had this experience with a bad boss. On Saturday night, you’ll get an email in your inbox saying, “Please prove your worth by Monday,”” she says. I continued with X’s rant. “I’m not a billionaire boss, I’m on the side of the workers.”
Naturally, members of Congress are completely flummified at the idea that they must prove to be government officials. I did anything during the week. Senate members rarely prove that they do anything for Americans. They don’t think others have to prove their worth to the department.
In that same way, Musk auwed a bit with his reaction.
“What did you do last week?” he wondered.
What did you do last week?
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025
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Elon says it was a test
Elon Musk further explains why he emailed federal workers to list five things he accomplished at work the week before. It was a way to see who was actually reading their work emails.
“The reason this is important is that a considerable number of people who are supposed to work for the government are not doing enough work to have no checks on email at all!” he wrote.
“In some cases, we believe that the identities of non-existent and dead people are used to collect salaries. In other words, there is a complete scam.”
Meanwhile, according to a 2023 survey, Senator Tina Smith It’s not the most effective Congressional Democrats. With her being elected to the Senate in 2018, it may be difficult for her to come up with a total of five bullet points.
