The lawmakers said in a letter that agency heads should immediately tell staffers to not respond to OPM’s “ill-conceived email stunt” asking them what they accomplished last week.
Elon Musk has responded on social media to another user mocking an email from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) asking federal workers to summarize what they did over the past week in five bullet points.
Behind the scenes, cabinet secretaries compared notes as they tried to figure out how to respond to a directive from President Trump’s most powerful adviser without angering the president.
The memo, published just a few hours before the midnight deadline, says responses should be sent to both OPM and agency leadership.
Trump’s billionaire enforcer told federal workers they needed to justify themselves—or else. Then the administration changed its mind.
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