Fired and furloughed federal workers and contractors, and other opponents of recent cuts, visited senators' offices to ask them to rein in Elon Musk and the U.S. DOGE Service.

"Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager," Musk's message said.

The turmoil that enveloped the federal workforce over the last few days is unlikely to cease anytime soon as the U.S. government's human resources agency considers how to fulfill Elon Musk ’s demands.