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Elon Musk sowed chaos across the government just days ago by asserting that failure to comply with a similar directive would result in their dismissals.
Elon Musk during a meeting of President Trump’s cabinet members on Thursday. Officials at some agencies told workers to pause or not respond to the previous email, defying Mr. Musk’s orders. Credit… Doug Mills/The New York Times Published Feb. 28, 2025 Updated March 1, 2025, 12:12 a.m. ET Federal workers started to receive emails late Friday evening asking them to provide a list of accomplishments from the week, a reprise of a request by Elon Musk that spread fear and confusion through the government just days ago.
The email, titled “What did you do last week? Part II,” echoed an email sent to federal workers last weekend that instructed them to reply with a list of around five accomplishments from their workweek. That blast came shortly after Mr. Musk, the billionaire President Trump has assigned to shrink the federal work force, said on social media that failure to respond to the coming message would be “taken as a resignation.”
The email on Friday from the Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources arm, went to workers at various agencies, including the F.B.I., the General Services Administration, and the Defense, Justice, Labor and Agriculture Departments, according to copies of emails seen by The New York Times.
Like the earlier email, it directed them to send approximately five bullets describing what they achieved this week. But it also said that, going forward, employees would be expected to complete the task weekly by Monday at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.
There were other slight differences from the first email. This time, employees who worked only on classified or sensitive activities were instructed to write “all of my activities are sensitive” in response.
It is unclear what consequences, if any, there will be if employees fail to comply with the new directive.
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