Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, has pushed back against Elon Musk on his second day in office by telling staff not to respond to an email demanding they list what they accomplished last week.

FBI Director Kash Patel has told employees to delay responding to a federal productivity inquiry spearheaded by Elon Musk, who requires federal workers to justify their weekly accomplishments. Meanwhile,

In a sign that not every Trump official is on the same page, leaders at the FBI and State Department instructed employees not to respond.

Elon Musk appeared unfazed after President Donald Trump publicly called on the DOGE director to “GET MORE AGGRESSIVE” with his work in a series of Saturday morning posts on Truth Social. The president appeared to give Musk a performance evaluation as he declared in an all-caps message: “ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB,

Senator Tina Smith hit out at Musk's demand for federal workers to explain what they accomplished over the last week or risk losing their jobs.