Murkowski knocks Musk over ‘absurd weekend email’

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) slammed Elon Musk over an “absurd weekend email” sent to federal employees requiring they send the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) a list of what they accomplished in the past week.

“Our public workforce deserves to be treated with dignity and respect for the unheralded jobs they perform,” Murkowski wrote on the social platform X. “The absurd weekend email to justify their existence wasn’t it.”

The Alaska senator criticized Musk and the work done by his Department of Government Efficiency as it looks to slash federal spending and is examining various departments’ abilities to serve President Trump’s agenda.

“If Elon Musk truly wants to understand what federal workers accomplished over the past week, he should get to know each department and agency, and learn about the jobs he’s trying to cut,” Murkowski said.

Federal employees received an email from OPM on Saturday asking them to send approximately five bullet points about what they worked on in the past week.

Musk said if employees don’t respond to the email by Monday at 11:59 p.m. EST, it will be “taken as a resignation.”

The move has drawn sharp criticism and concern.

The leaders of several federal agencies have stepped in and told their employees to not respond to the email and they would handle correspondence with OPM on the matter.

Unions representing thousands of federal workers also slammed the email, demanding answers about the legality of the request.

Musk has defended the email and said it intends to find “outright fraud” from people who are doing too little work. He praised employees who have provided “good responses” so far.

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