Musk's Doge doubles down on weekly updates email. Will this be ignored again?

Despite non-compliance from multiple federal agencies, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has sent out a second mass e-mail to executive branch employees requiring them to list their weekly accomplishments by midnight Monday. The requirements of DOGE hit the email boxes of several federal workers on Saturday night.

The mail was sent via the Office of Personnel Management and bore the subject line “What did you do last week? Part II," which was seen as the callback to last week’s email the department sent that caused confusion. The email maintained that the new requirement exempted targeted agencies whose employees sought to be exempt from the extra paperwork due to the secretive nature of their work.

The respondents were also asked to not send links, attachments or any classified or sensitive information — and were given the option to write “All of my activities are sensitive.” “Going forward, please complete the above task each week by Monday at 11:59pmET,” the email stated.

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Will this mail be ignored as well?

The last time when the link was sent, several of Trump’s newly appointed agency heads told their employees to ignore Musk’s accountability-minded email initiative. Trump’s strongest allies FBI Director Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told their agencies to ignore the demand.

Amid the discomfort among his peers, Musk took to X, to emphasize that the email is mandatory — responding to claims that Secretary Pete Hegseth has told the Department of Defense employees to circulate their reports internally as well as to OPM.

“The President has made it clear that this is mandatory for the executive branch. Anyone working on classified or other sensitive matters is still required to respond if they receive the email, but can simply reply that their work is sensitive,” the 53-year-old wrote on X.

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The President has made it clear that this is mandatory for the executive branch.

Anyone working on classified or other sensitive matters is still required to respond if they receive the email, but can simply reply that their work is sensitive. https://t.co/lSyfj8eMzR

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 1, 2025

While addressing the first cabinet meeting of US President Donald Trump’s second term as President. Musk addressed the assembled secretaries and explained the purpose of the rote task. “I think that email perhaps was misinterpreted as a performance review, but it was a pulse check review,” Musk said while wearing a Make America Great Again hat.

“But what we are trying to get to the bottom of is we think there are several people on the government payroll who are dead, which is probably why they can’t respond,” he added. While speaking on the matter on the sidelines of the Oval Office meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Trump said that those who don’t answer the email are at risk of being fired.

With inputs from agencies.