<p>On Monday, President Donald Trump endorsed the email announced by Elon Musk that told federal employees to list five examples of what they accomplished in the past week.</p>
<p>&#8220;I thought it was great because we have people that don&#8217;t show up to work and nobody even knows if they work for the government,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the White House. &#8220;So by asking the question, &#8216;Tell us what you did this week,&#8217; what he&#8217;s doing is saying, &#8216;Are you actually working?&#8217; And then if you don&#8217;t answer, you&#8217;re sort of semi-fired or you&#8217;re fired.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump went on to say that &#8220;a lot of people are not answering because they don&#8217;t even exist.&#8221; He also seemed to take a swipe at former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, saying, &#8220;That&#8217;s how badly various parts of our government were run, especially by this last group.&#8221;</p>
<p>Musk, who is overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort under Trump, announced on Saturday that an email would be sent out to federal workers.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">President Trump on DOGE emails: &#8220;I thought it was great&#8230;by asking the question, &#8216;tell us what you did this week&#8217; what he&#8217;s doing is saying &#8216;are you actually working?&#8217; and then if you don&#8217;t answer, like you&#8217;re sorta semi-fired or you&#8217;re fired&#8230;&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/PD2TLlzPNL">pic.twitter.com/PD2TLlzPNL</a></p>
<p>— CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1894095758686634306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Consistent with President [Trump&#8217;s] instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,&#8221; Musk declared in a post to his social media platform, X. &#8220;Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) <a href="https://x.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1893477491764850697" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent</a> the email with the subject line, &#8220;What did you do last week?&#8221; It <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senators-cant-escape-elon-musk-asking-what-they-got-done-last-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> employees reply with a list of roughly five accomplishments and carbon-copy their managers. A deadline of Monday at 11:59 p.m. EST was given.</p>
<p>&#8220;What they&#8217;re doing is they&#8217;re trying to find out who&#8217;s working for the government. Are we paying other people that aren&#8217;t working? Where is all that money going? We have found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud so far, and we&#8217;ve just started,&#8221; Trump said, adding later, &#8220;There was a lot of genius in sending it. We&#8217;re trying to find out if people are working and so we&#8217;re sending a letter to people: &#8216;Please tell us what you did last week.&#8217; If people don&#8217;t respond it&#8217;s very possible that there is no such person or they&#8217;re not working.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some agencies, including the <a href="https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1893699466491756796" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> and <a href="https://x.com/margbrennan/status/1893662852940022158" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Department</a>, instructed their personnel to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-officials-tell-employees-not-to-respond-to-musks-productivity-email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ignore</a> the email, noting they have their own procedures. But Trump insisted that these orders were &#8220;done in a friendly manner&#8221; and acknowledged that &#8220;confidential things&#8221; had to be considered.</p>
<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t mean that in any way combatively with Elon,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;They&#8217;re just saying there are some people that you don’t want to really have them tell you what they’re working on last week. But other than that, I think everyone thought it was a pretty ingenious idea.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;We have to find out where these people are. Who are they? And we said, &#8216;If you don’t respond, we assume you’re not around, and you’re not getting paid anymore, too.'&#8221;</p>

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