More Agency Heads Fall In Line With Musk’s Demand For Workers To List Accomplishments

One agency’s two-page Q&A on the process shows just how much time this whole thing is wasting.

The Trump administration sent another obnoxious email to federal employees ordering them to list their achievements from the previous week, making clear it intends for the bureaucratic memo exercise to be a new weekly ritual for more than two million workers.

The email from the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, was titled “What did you do last week? Part II.” Like the previous one, it instructed employees to “please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished,” and gave a deadline of Monday at midnight.

The first such email was paired with a threat from Elon Musk, the head of President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, who said nonresponses would be considered resignations. It prompted widespread confusion across agencies, with some department leaders telling workers to reply, and others telling them to ignore it and stay within their agency chain of command.

Follow-up emails shared with HuffPost on Saturday showed some agency leaders falling more in line with Musk after OPM’s second “what did you do last week?” demand.

Leadership at the Department of Homeland Security sent an email to employees Saturday telling them they were “implementing a structured process to submit a brief summary of their key accomplishments from the previous week.” They called the new policy “part of our internal accountability” efforts, and said it would align with OPM’s recent guidance.