{"id":34236,"date":"2025-02-24T20:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/elon-musk-demand-that-federal-workers-document-what-they-do-causes-chaos\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:15:24","slug":"elon-musk-demand-that-federal-workers-document-what-they-do-causes-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/elon-musk-demand-that-federal-workers-document-what-they-do-causes-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk demand that federal workers document what they do causes chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unions ask judge to block retaliation against staff over what unnamed Pentagon official calls \u2018silliest thing in 40 years\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/24\/elon-musk-email-donald-trump-us-government-latest-live-politics-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A top labor union has condemned Elon Musk\u2019s ultimatum to federal workers as an \u201cunclear and unlawful distraction\u201d, after the Tesla billionaire turned White House-sanctioned cost-cutter demanded federal workers detail what they do at their jobs in bullet points or face dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday email sent to millions of employees was the latest salvo in Musk\u2019s campaign, authorized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, to dramatically downsize the federal government. Over the weekend, a coalition of groups opposed to the mass layoffs asked a court to prevent reprisals against employees who fail to reply by the deadline of Monday at midnight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/24\/elon-musk-federal-workers-chaos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unions ask judge to block retaliation against staff over what unnamed Pentagon official calls \u2018silliest thing in 40 years\u2019 US politics live \u2013 latest updates A top labor union has condemned Elon Musk\u2019s ultimatum to federal workers as an \u201cunclear and unlawful distraction\u201d, after the Tesla billionaire turned White House-sanctioned cost-cutter demanded federal workers detail &#8230; <a title=\"Elon Musk demand that federal workers document what they do causes chaos\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/elon-musk-demand-that-federal-workers-document-what-they-do-causes-chaos\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elon Musk demand that federal workers document what they do causes chaos\">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-34236","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\/34236","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=34236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}