On Saturday, as you may have heard, Elon Musk, unelected, unconfirmed, unvetted,

no FBI background checks, running a fake unconstitutional and illegal,

fake agency, I said fake twice because it's so fake,

posted on Twitter, essentially announcing that all federal employees would soon be treated like children.

How? Well, they were going to be receiving an email asking them to report their five biggest

accomplishments from the previous week. As I said, infantilizing, isn't it? The tweet also ended with a

warning that a failure to respond to this absurdity could result in resignation. Check out this

clip. Chaos and confusion across the federal government. Elon Musk now

downplaying the ultimatum he issued to federal workers, explain what you've done or resign. Musk initially

posting on X, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what

they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.

Those emails already going out.

Sources tell ABC they ask employees to list five bullet points of what they've accomplished in the last week.

The deadline to respond is tomorrow night.

Several hours later, Musk posting, the bar is very low here. An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable.

Sources tell ABC top officials that the White House were caught off guard.

And many federal agencies from the State Department to NASA are urging employees to hold off responding.

Yeah.

Chaos, confusion. Those are the watchwords.

And just in case you were wondering that chainsaw he's wielding is also metaphorical.

So it turns out that, oh, doesn't turn out, we do this because this has always been the case.

Many federal employees are protected, or at least they were, by civil service rules that prevent them from being terminated without cause.

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