Republican senators are cautiously optimistic that the services of billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to make sweeping federal workforce firings that have put many GOP lawmakers on edge may no longer be required.

Senate Republicans on Monday criticized Elon Musk’s directive for federal government employees to lose their jobs if they did not send in a bullet-pointed summary of what they did last week at work, describing it as a rash decision that was not handled well.

Elon Musk's demand for federal employees to submit weekly work summaries via a recent email has sparked bipartisan criticism from Senate Republicans.