Much less Than Half of Federal Workforce Replied to DOGE Productiveness Electronic mail

• A couple of million federal staff replied to DOGE’s productiveness e mail.
• That’s lower than half of the federal authorities, which employs over 2.4 million folks.
• The preliminary e mail request was met with confusion, with some companies telling employees to not reply.

The White Home stated on Tuesday that lower than half of all federal staff responded to an e mail from the Workplace of Personnel Administration asking them to ship in an inventory of their accomplishments.

“I can announce that we’ve got had multiple million staff who’ve chosen to take part on this quite simple job of, once more, sending 5 bullet factors to your direct supervisor or supervisor, cc’ing OPM,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt instructed reporters.

“All federal staff needs to be working on the identical tempo that President Trump is working and transferring,” Leavitt added.

The federal authorities employs greater than 2.4 million folks.

The Division of Authorities Effectivity’s first deadline for staff to ship in bullet-point summaries handed at 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday.

The preliminary request for responses from all federal staff got here by way of a memo from the OPM on Saturday. DOGE chief Elon Musk stated on the identical day that failure to reply by the deadline “can be taken as a resignation.”

Musk appeared to stroll again this ultimatum on Monday. He wrote in an X put up that federal staff can be given “one other likelihood” in the event that they haven’t emailed of their listing of accomplishments but.

“Failure to reply a second time will lead to termination,” Musk wrote.

The DOGE e mail request was met with confusion and conflicting steering throughout the federal government.

Not less than eight companies, together with the Division of Protection, the State Division, and the Division of Well being and Human Companies, stated their staff did not have to answer OPM’s e mail.

President Donald Trump has publicly backed Musk and DOGE’s transfer, and on Monday instructed reporters that he thinks the OPM e mail request is a “fairly ingenious thought.”

“So by asking the query, ‘Inform us what you probably did this week,’ what he is doing is saying, ‘Are you really working?'” Trump instructed reporters. “After which, if you happen to do not reply, you’re type of semi-fired, otherwise you’re fired.”

Musk first pitched the concept of getting a government-efficiency fee to Trump throughout a livestreamed dialog on X in August. Musk instructed Trump then that he’d be “completely satisfied to assist out” with such an effort.

Musk was formally introduced because the chief of DOGE in November after Trump received the election.

Final month, the Trump administration gave federal staff from January 28 to February 6 to just accept a buyout provide and go away their jobs. A spokesperson for OPM instructed BI on February 6 that over 40,000 staff have taken the buyout.

Representatives for the White Home and DOGE didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider.