Federal Agencies Push Back on Elon Musk’s ‘What Did You Do Last Week?’ Email
Millions of federal employees are heading into their workweek caught between differing factions of the Trump administration.
Feds must answer email on what they did last week — or lose jobs, Musk says
Emails began going out to the 2.3-million federal employees Saturday asking for five bullet points of their accomplishments.
Some US agencies tell workers not to reply to Musk's 'What did you do last week' email
Multiple U.S. agencies have told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by President Donald Trump's adviser Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week or be fired, as a chaotic campaign to cull the federal workforce pushes forward.
Elon Musk Demands All Federal Employees Say 'What They Got Done Last Week' Or Be Ousted
The billionaire working to strip the federal government of its workforce made the demand after President Donald Trump told him to "GET MORE AGGRESSIVE."
'What did you do last week?' email stokes confusion and anger among federal workers
Elon Musk's claim that federal workers who ignore a mass email will lose their job isn't supported by the email's request — or OPM guidance that says responses to its mass emails are "voluntary."
'What did you do last week?' Read the email DOGE sent to federal workers.
The White House DOGE office on Saturday ordered all federal workers be sent an email asking them to list the tasks they'd completed over the week.
DOGE's Elon Musk says federal employees must document their work or resign
Some federal agencies, including the State and Defense Departments, told their employees not to respond to an email asking for a list of tasks they completed.
Several administration officials tell workers not to reply to Musk email
Leaders at defense and intelligence offices were particularly wary of Musk’s demand over the weekend asking workers to outline what they did last week.
Musk to Federal Employees: Email Me 5 Things You Did Last Week or You're Fired
Musk initially said the request was a 'very basic pulse check,' but now says it will root out 'non-existent people or...dead people' who are collecting paychecks. Several agencies are telling employees to ignore the email for now.
Key agencies tell workers not to respond to Musk email demanding to know what they did last week
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have until 11:59 p.m. Monday to explain what they accomplished over the last week.
Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week
In an email, Elon Musk told hundreds of thousands of federal workers they have until just before Tuesday to explain what they accomplished over the last week. Some departments told employees not to respond.
The Department of Defense is publicly telling staff to ignore the DOGE team's 'what did you do last week' email requests
The Pentagon told employees to "pause any response" to the email, saying it would be the authority to conduct staff reviews.
All federal employees told to list 5 things they accomplished last week or Musk says they face dismissal
Some federal employees are deciding whether to respond with actual accomplishments or to respond to the email with bullets of ...
Musk used 'What did you get done this week?' tactic at Twitter
Elon Musk is again using tactics that he has employed at his company X and trying to apply it to the federal government.