Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week.

Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.

All federal workers will shortly receive an email asking what they did last week — and that if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation, Elon Musk wrote in a post on X Saturday. Musk wrote he was acting “consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions,