Pentagon Tells Employees to Ignore DOGE Crew’s ‘What Did You Do’ E mail

• The Pentagon is telling workers to “pause any response” to DOGE’s request for a piece report.
• Federal workers have been instructed this weekend to record 5 duties they achieved final week by Monday evening.
• However the Protection Division has as a substitute mentioned it could be the authority to assessment its workers.

The Pentagon is the primary main federal company to publicly inform workers to carry off on responding to an instruction from the White Home DOGE workplace to record their work accomplishments.

“For now, please pause any response to the OPM electronic mail titled ‘What did you do final week,'” the Protection Division wrote in a press release to civilian workers that was posted on-line on Sunday.

“The Division of Protection is answerable for reviewing the efficiency of its personnel and it’ll conduct any assessment in accordance with its personal procedures,” mentioned the assertion, posted on behalf of Darin S. Selnick, the appearing protection undersecretary for personnel and readiness.

It added that the Pentagon would deal with responses to the e-mail request.

Selnick was referring to an electronic mail despatched by way of the Workplace of Personnel Administration, which requested federal workers to reply by 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday with 5 duties or accomplishments that they achieved over the past week.

“Please don’t ship any categorized data, hyperlinks, or attachments,” mentioned the DOGE electronic mail, which was despatched to workers in federal companies throughout the US.

It got here simply after President Donald Trump publicly wrote on Saturday that he needed Elon Musk to “get extra aggressive” in reducing staff and bills from the federal forms.

Musk, who oversees the DOGE staff, additionally introduced the e-mail on social media and mentioned {that a} “failure to reply can be taken as a resignation.”

The Protection Division didn’t reply to a request for remark despatched by Enterprise Insider outdoors common enterprise hours.

Staffers at different security-related authorities departments — together with the Division of Homeland Safety, Nationwide Safety Company, and the Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence — didn’t reply to BI’s requests for remark.

Representatives for the State Division and the FBI declined to touch upon the DOGE emails.