Elon Musk is vowing yet again to fire any federal workers who don’t respond to an email asking them to list five things they accomplished last week. Just after 7 p.m. EST — hours after the U.S. Office of Personnel Management had directed agencies that responses to its email were optional — Musk again threatened federal workers in a post on X,

The turmoil that enveloped the federal workforce over the last few days is unlikely to cease anytime soon as the U.S. government's human resources agency considers how to fulfill Elon Musk ’s demands.

Musk went on to say, "Subject to the discretion of the president, they will be given another chance. Failure to respond a second time will result in termination." The White House