Musk and DJT Demand Federal Workers Tell Him What They Did Last Week or Lose Their Jobs

With Donald Trump’s authorization, Elon Musk sent email to federal workers Saturday from DOGE’s non-government server plugged into the Office of Personnel Management network.

The Department of Government Efficiency is a subset of a White House IT team, not a government department.

Musk told all 2+ million federal workers to summarize their work accomplishments for the past week in five bullet points. He set a deadline of about 48 hours. In a separate post on his social media platform X, he said “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

Some federal workers worried that they could not respond because their work is classified and cannot be discussed in insecure email. Some agency heads told their employees to respond, and others told their workers to ignore Musk’s demand.

The Department of Health and Human Services emailed its employees that there was “no HHS expectation that HHS employees respond to OPM and there is no impact to your employment with the agency if you choose not to respond.” HHS went on to advise any who did respond, “Keep your response at a high level of generality and describe your work in a manner to protect sensitive data, personally identifiable information, and applicable privileges to the extent possible. Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

Many ordinary citizens sent their own lists of accomplishments to the reply-to address hr@opm.gov, or a list of five things they wanted to say to Musk, or photos of kittens or puppies.

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