The new FBI director instructed personnel not to respond to Musk's demand to justify their job or face dismissal.

Cracks may already be showing in the Trump administration, with newly-sworn-in FBI director Kash Patel sending an email to all his department’s employees instructing them to “pause any responses” they may have been working on following Elon Musk’s request that federal employees provide weekly summaries of their accomplishments or risk losing their jobs.

Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Elon Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

Billionaire Elon Musk in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, an entity created by President Donald Trump, on Saturday said all federal employees must report their activities or risk being fired.

Using yet another haphazard mass email, Musk and DOGE told federal employees to document what they did last week — or else.