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“OPM also clarified that a non-response to the email does not ... it’s very possible that there is no such person or they’re not working,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. The email, sent from the same account that first offered government ...

Confusion continued Monday as Elon Musk’s deadline for federal workers to detail their accomplishments from the previous week continues to be met with mixed messages.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a temporary restraining order Monday morning that prohibits both the DOE and OPM from sharing the personally identifiable information of some federal employees with DOGE, as Elon Musk’s budget-slashing group attempts to begin identifying government employees based on their productivity.

President Donald Trump backed Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent work or risk getting fired, even as OPM said compliance is voluntary.

Federal workers spent Monday trying to figure out how – or even whether – to respond to Elon Musk’s weekend email blast telling them to explain their work last week or risk losing their job.

“No.” “That was done in a friendly manner,” Trump said in the Oval Office while meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. “And they don’t mean that in any way combatively with ...

Elon Musk wants federal employees to recount what they ‘accomplished’ in the last week or face termination. A mass email with the subject line ‘What did you do last week?’ was sent to the workers over the weekend,

The Office of Personnel Management told HR officials that employees wouldn’t be let go for not replying to an email asking what they did last week.