US Health Agency Now Says Employees Have to Respond to DOGE Email

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) told employees on March 3 that they were required to respond to an email from the Trump administration demanding they summarize their recent accomplishments, in a reversal from the HHS’s earlier position. The administration sent out a second round of emails on the evening of Feb. 28 in a renewed push by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to assess the performance of government employees and overhaul federal agencies. The email asked workers to share five bullet points summarizing their accomplishments over the past week. Employees at HHS, which includes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had previously been told that they did not have to respond to DOGE‘s emails and there would be “no impact to your employment with the agency if you choose not to respond.”...