Second DOGE email deadline sows more confusion amid federal workforce

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Federal workers faced their second midnight deadline Monday to comply with Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency‘s demands to list their weekly accomplishments.

Of the federal government’s roughly 2.4 million person workforce, excluding military personnel, just over 1 million responded to DOGE’s previous email demand. Musk and President Donald Trump have defended the requirement, which calls on federal workers to list five personal accomplishments from the past week, though other White House officials had backed away from the suggestion that failing to do so will result in termination as Musk has said publicly.

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