Federal employees should expect another email on Saturday asking for recent achievements, a new attempt by President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to request responses from the government's workforce.
The plan was disclosed by someone with knowledge of the situation that requested anonymity.
The first email, distributed a week ago, asked employees, “What did you do last week?” I was prompted to list the five tasks I completed.
Trump-powered Musk said he is aiming to reduce the agency and eliminate thousands of federal jobs, and those who don't respond will be fired.
Meanwhile, many agencies have told the workforce not to respond or issue conflicting guidance.
The second email, according to people with knowledge of the situation, may be delivered differently, making it easier for employees to train for violations.
Instead of being sent by the Personnel Management Bureau, which acts as a federal government personnel agency but does not have the authority to hire or fire, the email comes from individual agencies that directly monitor career staff.
The plan was first reported by the Washington Post.
It is unclear how the national security agency will handle the second email.
After the first one, they instructed employees not to reply as much of the work in the agency was sensitive or classified.
Less than half of federal workers responded, according to the White House.
The Human Resources Administration ultimately told the agency leader shortly before Monday's deadline for responses that the request is optional for a similar request.
On Wednesday, at the first cabinet meeting of Trump's second term, Musk argued that it was a “pulse check” to ensure that people working in the government have “pulse and two neurons.”
Both Musk and Trump argue that some workers are either dead or fictitious, and that the president publicly supports the mask's approach.
Speaking to those who didn't respond to the first email, Trump said “they're on the bubble,” and added that he was “not excited” about them not responding.
“They may not exist now,” he said without providing evidence.
“Maybe we're paying people who don't exist.”
In addition to the recent layoffs of probation employees, the memo distributed this week was the stage for a massive layoff and program consolidation.
The education department offered employees a $25,000 acquisition and warned them of the looming layoffs.
Emails sent to all agent workers were given to them until the end of Monday to decide on a proposal.
It was sent by the department's Chief Human Resources Officer.
The agency did not immediately provide a comment.
