DOGE Sends Mass Email Demanding Federal Workers Justify Their Jobs or Be Fired

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sends a mass email to all 2.3 million federal employees demanding they list five things they accomplished in the past week or face termination. The email triggers widespread panic across the federal workforce. Several agencies — including the FBI, State Department, Defense Department, and Homeland Security — explicitly tell their employees not to respond, citing operational security concerns. The White House press secretary threatens that employees who do not comply could be fired. The email represents an unprecedented micromanagement of the entire federal workforce by a single unelected official. A federal judge later rules that the mass email and termination threats violate civil service protections and orders compliance to stop.