{"id":34138,"date":"2025-02-23T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T10:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/musk-tells-us-federal-workers-to-explain-what-they-achieved-last-week-or-be-fired\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T10:12:35","slug":"musk-tells-us-federal-workers-to-explain-what-they-achieved-last-week-or-be-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/musk-tells-us-federal-workers-to-explain-what-they-achieved-last-week-or-be-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk tells US federal workers to explain what they achieved last week or be fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Cruel and disrespectful\u2019 request to  employees sparks confusion across key  government agencies<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the past week, sparking confusion across key agencies as the tech billionaire Elon Musk expands his crusade to slash the size of government.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who serves as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/20\/ruling-firing-federal-workers-trump-doge\">President Donald Trump\u2019s cost-cutting chief<\/a>, telegraphed the extraordinary request on his social media network on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/23\/elon-musk-tells-us-federal-workers-to-explain-what-they-achieved-last-week-or-be-fired\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Cruel and disrespectful\u2019 request to employees sparks confusion across key government agencies Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the past week, sparking confusion across key agencies as the tech billionaire Elon Musk expands his crusade to slash the size of government. &#8230; <a title=\"Musk tells US federal workers to explain what they achieved last week or be fired\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/musk-tells-us-federal-workers-to-explain-what-they-achieved-last-week-or-be-fired\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Musk tells US federal workers to explain what they achieved last week or be fired\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}