FBI Director Kash Patel has instructed bureau employees to disregard Elon Musk’s directive requiring federal workers to report their weekly accomplishments or risk termination. “The FBI, through the Office of the Director,

Among the first to advise against responding was Kash Patel, who was just sworn in as FBI director at the end of last week. By Sunday, a flurry of other

FBI Director Kash Patel told employees to hold off on responding to an email, sent at tech billionaire Elon Musk’s direction, asking federal workers to list their accomplishments during the previous week.

Trump claimed Monday that any agencies saying not to respond to the email were doing it "in a friendly manner."

Patel, who hosted the podcast Kash’s Corner, has called Musk a monopolist, claimed he mass-harvested data and accused him of making his fortune from federal contracts funded by taxpayer dollars, according to Rolling Stone.