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Elon Musk ordered an email to be sent to federal workers asking them to state what they accomplished throughout the previous week. Failure to answer would be taken as “resignation” from their jobs.  

The initial deadline for the email response was for Monday at 11:59 p.m. 

The email asked employees to respond with “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week.” Managers need to be CC’ed as well. No classified information sent in the response is another requirement. 

President Trump has expressed approval of the email and called it a genius move from the DOGE Administrator. Musk did the same with employees at X (formerly known as Twitter).

Though the President is in favor of the email, the ultimatum has prompted a variety of responses from federal agencies and department heads. 

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told her department they do not need to respond to the email due to the confidential nature of intelligence work: 

“Given the inherently sensitive and classified nature of our work, [intelligence community] employees should not respond to the OPM email.”

Similarly, FBI Director Kash Patel told his staff to “pause any responses” to the email until further notice. 

The Department of Health and Human Services communicated to its employees: “There is no impact to your employment with the agency if you choose not to respond.” The Department of Homeland Security issued a similar direction to its staff. 

Contrarily, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy directed his staff to comply with the email.  

On Monday, Musk posted on X that the requirement would be extended to another day, “subject to the discretion of the President.” No response from email recipients this time would result in termination.

NBC News reports that the DOGE will use artificial intelligence to process the email responses. 

According to the New York Post, the DOGE “has fired over 20,000 federal government workers and frozen billions in federal grants and foreign aid.”