Nearly 40% of the federal contracts President Donald Trump's administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save any money

The Office of Personnel Management told HR officials that employees wouldn’t be let go for not replying to an email asking what they did last week.

Trump’s billionaire enforcer told federal workers they needed to justify themselves—or else. Then the administration changed its mind.

Elon Musk, after previously threatening to fire federal employees for not responding to an email, has decided to give them a second chance. The condition is the approval of President Donald Trump. Elon Musk,

Elon Musk’s threat to federal employees is the latest episode to call into question the White House’s downplaying of his authority.

After OPM said workers weren’t required to respond, Musk said they’ll get another chance to reply or be fired.

Many federal workers were left confused by the flip-flopping, but for the first time since the beginning of Trump’s return to power, government employees appeared to fend off – at least for now – an ambush in the war between the world’s richest man and the federal workforce.

Musk went on to say, "Subject to the discretion of the president, they will be given another chance. Failure to respond a second time will result in termination." The White House