Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their jobs.
That resistance has intensified a sense of chaos and confusion, while highlighting a potential power struggle among President Donald Trump’s allies, that is affecting federal employees as a new workweek begins.
Musk’s team sent an email to hundreds of thousands of federal employees Saturday requiring them to report five things they had accomplished last week. Musk said on X that any employee who failed to respond by the deadline — set in the email as 11:59 p.m. EST Monday — would lose their job. See Page 8
Here are more Trump administration headlines from Sunday:
USAID cuts:The Trump administration said it is eliminating 2,000 posts at the U.S. Agency for International Development and placing all but a fraction of others worldwide on leave, after a federal judge allowed it to move forward with pulling thousands of USAID staffers off the job.
Ukraine deal: A contentious U.S. proposal that would have seen $500 billion worth of profits from Ukrainian rare minerals given to the United States has been taken off the table, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, a sign the two sides might be drawing closer to an agreement.
Foreign visits: U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are making tag-team visits to Washington this week as Europe attempts to persuade Trump not to abandon Ukraine.
Pentagon firings: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists Trump’s abrupt firing of the nation’s senior military officer wasn’t unusual, brushing aside outcry that the new administration is seeking to inject politics into the military.
— From wire reports
