Doge asks the federal workforce to justify itself and Joy Reid out at MSNBC.

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I said anything.

So Noah, Doge outdid itself yet again sending out an email through the Office of Personnel Management to all the federal workforce saying,

please, by date certain here very soon send us a

email saying five things you've done five accomplishments you've you're responsible for

over the last week a lot of confusion about this.

Doge stipulated or OPM stipulated that a non-reply would constitute a resignation.

Then various agency heads told their workforce,

actually don't bother responding to this one.

And Donald Trump was asked about it and kind of headsged that it was a very, very good idea,

and people would be fired or semi-fired.

I think he used the word semi-resign or something like that if they didn't reply.

And Musk doubled down on it.

I think the deadline is today we're recording on Tuesday.

What do you make of it? Your summary of events is 100%. I think that is the timeline, the sequence of events that we were privy to. You know, when these emails

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