WASHINGTON, DC – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel have ordered intelligence community officers to ignore Elon Musk’s email demanding they list five things they accomplished last week or risk termination.

Director Kash Patel, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, and the State Department have told their employees to hold off responding to the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) email asking federal employees to justify their work,

Elon Musk has further explained why he is demanding federal workers justify keeping their jobs — as newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard ordered her intelligence officers to ignore it.

Musk’s unusual demand has faced resistance from several key U.S. agencies led by the president’s loyalists — including the FBI, State Department, Homeland Security and the Pentagon — which instructed their employees over the weekend not to comply.

Multiple federal department heads, including new FBI director Kash Patel, told staff to ignore a request from Elon Musk asking them to submit an email within 48 hours to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) listing out their accomplishments for the week or face termination.