(American Political Report)—The hammer is coming down on wasteful federal employees who cannot justify their taxpayer funded salaries. Elon Musk announced on X that he is asking every federal employee what they did last week. Failure to respond will be considered a resignation.
As he noted on X, this is consistent with President Trump’s instructions, though we do not know what those instructions actually were. It could be as simple as to find a way to drastically reduce the federal workforce legally, in which case this should do the trick.
His post:
Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
Considering the simplicity of the demand and the ease by which federal employees can save their jobs, it seems like a solid plan. After all, Musk isn’t going to be reading the millions of emails he receives, though the DOGE team may be able to filter out standard responses to isolate the ones that are aggressive in nature.
On the surface, this appears to be a straightforward way to cut the workforce. Many will not reply. Others may think nobody will read them and could reply nonsensically or angrily.
Whatever happens, this is a good move to figure out who’s interested in continuing to work for the federal government and who isn’t cut out for it.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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