Thousands of federal employees still do not meet the orders of President Donald Trump to return to personally working full -time.
Elon Musk says that these employees will start this week with consequences.
It is a little more than a month ago that Trump returned to the Oval Office, and almost the same amount of time was given to the government personnel to return to the office.
Trump and Musk made it a priority to finish remotely and teleworking situations and bring these employees back to federal workplaces. Many of whom have been empty or almost empty for years since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemie in March 2020.
“Those who ignored the executive command of President Trump to get back to work have now received more than a month of warning,” Musk posted X early on Monday morning.
“Starting this week,” continued “Trump's” First Buddy “:” Those who still don't return to the office with administrative leave are placed. '
His threat to relieve even more federal employees of their posts came in response to a claim that half of the workplaces in Washington are still half empty.
Elon Musk now threatens administrative leave for federal employees who have refused to return to their Washington, DC workplaces a month after President Donald Trump had spent his back to office orders
Rep. Ralph Norman (RS.C.) wrote on X: 'No government agency takes even half of their office space. Their checks come from the people. '
“Welcome back to work, people,” he added.
Musk, a CEO and owner of Tesla, SpaceX and X who is in charge of thousands of employees, has linked productivity and responsibility to appear at the office every day.
He pushed Trump to make the work of federal offices a priority of his administration.
On Saturday, Musk's Department of Government Sent Efficiency (Doge) an e -mail to 2.3 million federal employees of an Office or Personnel and Management account and demanded that she describes with five list marks in which they describe at work last week.
This was given an intense return by saying that this was too heavy a lift for already under -occupied agencies.
And bosses in the various federal departments have issued their employees contradictory guidelines to respond or not.
One e -mail within the Ministry of Defense obtained by DailyMail.com explicitly told employees 'not respond' to the OPM -E -mail.
Musk gave federal employees a deadline of 11:59 pm on Monday to answer. He claimed in a message to X about the message that any refusal or not responding to the E -mail would be considered a dismissal from the employee.
The threat of Musk comes when Republicans hurry to defend his e -mail on Saturday evening against 2.3 million federal employees who oblige them to sum up five listing signs with details about what they achieved at work last week '
Thousands of federal employees were ordered by Trump last month to end their telework or external work situations that linger from COVID-19 and to return personally to their respective Washington, DC offices
The confusion among employees has led to fear of whether their jobs are safe if they respond or do not respond to Musk's question.
Norman said Fox News that it is completely acceptable to demand from employees to justify themselves and explain what they have done in the time of a week and that taxpayers have a 'right to know' how their money is spent.
“The price tag that the taxpayers now pay is $ 271 billion a year,” Norman noted in his interview on Monday morning. “Is it too much to ask them to verify why they make an average salary of $ 106,000 a year?”
“The absurdity and, I think, the arrogance of the workers who say” that's a tough lift, “is – what's wrong with them?” The conference member added. “That is what the Americans are sick and tired of.”
“We are those who pay the bills, so we have the right to know.”
