President Donald Trump praised Elon Musk's efforts to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy and then called on him to do even more.

The nation’s HR leaders suddenly don’t seem keen to obey Elon Musk’s weekend threat. Responding to the president’s request that he become “more aggressive” in sizing down the federal government, Musk wrote in a social media post Saturday that all federal employees must self-report five things that they achieved in the previous week before midnight on Monday or face immediate termination.