Musk’s latest email to federal employees sows more confusion

马斯克给联邦员工的最新邮件又引发更多困惑

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2025-02-24

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On today’s show: The Hill reports on how Elon Musk’s weekend email asking federal employees to describe their accomplishments led a number of agencies to push back. Soldiers are arriving at the border — but hardly any migrants are crossing. The Washington Post’s Arelis Hernández reports from the town of Del Rio. The conservative Christian Democratic Union won elections in Germany on Sunday, likely making its leader, Friedrich Merz, the next chancellor. Reuters reports on how the far-right Alternative for Germany party also saw big gains. Plus, Israel says it will delay the release of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, how one man found out his partner was on the American Airlines flight that collided with an army helicopter, and American skier Mikaela Shiffrin wins her 100th World Cup title with a women-led team guiding her.
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  • Good morning.

  • It's Monday, February 24th.

  • I'm Shemitah Basu.

  • This is Apple News today.

  • On today's show,

  • American troops deployed

  • to the border find a relatively quiet scene

  • what Germany's election means for Europe and. The Western led global order.

  • And skier Mikayla Schifrin claims a historic 100th World cup win.

  • But first,

  • over the weekend, about 2.3. Million federal employees received an email

  • with the subject line, what did you do last week?

  • The email instructed federal workers to list.

  • What they have accomplished at work in the past five days.

  • Elon Musk, the head of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency,

  • said anyone who doesn't respond by the end of the day today is effectively resigning.

  • Reuters reports that workers at the Departments. Of Defense, Homeland Security,

  • Education and Commerce, as well as at the IRS

  • and National Institutes of Health were told not to respond pending further guidance.

  • ABC News reports some officials in the White House were even caught off guard.