More than 2 million federal workers received an email over the weekend threatening firing if they can't justify their work performance by Monday night.

Milwaukee VA employees were first advised to comply with an Elon Musk directive to detail their work accomplishments, then were told it's not required.

After Elon Musk demanded that federal workers detail their work accomplishments via email, VA employees who contacted BI strongly opposed the effort.

"The best employees are starting to look elsewhere," the official told NBC News. "I can't overemphasize that enough."

More than 1,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs were fired amid the Trump administration's broad layoffs last week.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said tech billionaire Elon Musk and President Trump are “proving every single day they do not know what they are doing.” “Elon Musk and Donald Trump are proving every single day they do not know what they are doing,

Paul Lawrence, the Trump administration's nominee for deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, pledged Wednesday to look into recent firings at the VA and ensure that veterans' health and benefits information is protected from incursions by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain said Democrats are soliciting "sob stories" from "bloated" federal bureaucrats who lost their jobs: "Give me a break."

The White House said federal agencies have discretion over key policy, as records showed Elon Musk’s team pushing for still more enormous changes.

An email arrived in the inboxes of workers at Spokane's Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center and employees across the federal government on Saturday afternoon with a seemingly simple request from the Office of Personnel Management.

In a sign that not every Trump official is on the same page, leaders at the FBI and State Department instructed employees not to respond.