FBI and Pentagon overrule Musk’s email demands in latest cost-cutting crusade

Elon Musk (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

Key US agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s latest demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their jobs.

The pushback from appointees of President Donald Trump has ushered in a new level of chaos and confusion within the beleaguered federal workforce, just a month after the President returned to the White House and began on his campaign promise to shrink the government.