{"id":2409260,"date":"2025-03-03T21:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T02:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-workers-face-second-doge-deadline-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T21:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T02:21:19","slug":"federal-workers-face-second-doge-deadline-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-workers-face-second-doge-deadline-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal workers face second DOGE deadline- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-workers-face-second-doge-deadline-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2409260&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Federal workers are facing ongoing confusion and pressure \u2064due too a \u200bdirective from Elon Musk and the Department of Government efficiency (DOGE) that requires them\u200c to report five personal accomplishments each\u2063 week.\u200d this is part of an effort to evaluate the\u200d federal workforce, which consists of approximately 2.4 million employees not \u2064including \u2062military \u200dpersonnel. Approximately one million employees responded to the first wave\u2064 of requests, but the\u2062 response to the second deadline set for March 3 has been varied across\u2064 federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The White\u2062 House supports this initiative, which \u2063Musk claims is intended to root out unproductive employees and verify the existence of those on the payroll. \u200dInterestingly, there \u2062are varying instructions from different agencies regarding \u2064compliance, with \u200csome officials urging employees\u200c not to respond \u200dwhile others mandate it.<\/p>\n<p>As the Trump administration prepares for\u200d notable reductions in \u2062the federal workforce, with \u2063deadlines for departments \u2063to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">submit workforce cut plans approaching<\/a>, adherence to \u200dthis\u200d reporting requirement is seen\u200c as critical. The\u2064 initiative also aligns with a \u200cbroader goal of streamlining government operations, although \u2064some skepticism exists regarding its implementation and consequences for those who do not comply.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Second DOGE email deadline sows more confusion amid federal workforce<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2020105\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Federal workers faced their second midnight deadline Monday to comply with <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a>&lsquo;s demands to list their weekly accomplishments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Of the federal government&rsquo;s roughly 2.4 million person workforce, excluding military personnel, just over 1 million responded to DOGE&rsquo;s previous email demand. Musk and President Donald Trump have defended the requirement, which calls on federal workers to list five personal accomplishments from the past week, though other White House officials had backed away from the suggestion that failing to do so will result in termination as Musk has said publicly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3335694\/elon-musk-doge-walks-back-mistakes-push-streamline-government\/\"><strong>MUSK-LED DOGE WALKS BACK HIGH-PROFILE MISTAKES AMID PUSH TO STREAMLINE GOVERNMENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This second prompt, first sent to workers Friday evening by Trump&rsquo;s Office of Personnel Management, again tells workers to list five weekly accomplishments and to plan doing so in perpetuity every Monday by midnight.<\/p>\n<p>White House, DOGE, and OPM officials declined to preview how many employees they expect to comply with Musk&rsquo;s latest demand but said they would provide an update later this week.<\/p>\n<p>As with the first email, the second deadline was handled very differently across Trump&rsquo;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Pentagon employees not to respond during the first round but directed civilian employees to meet Monday&rsquo;s midnight deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Department employees were similarly required to respond to OPM on Monday after previously being exempted due to the &ldquo;confidential and sensitive nature of the Department&rsquo;s work,&rdquo; but FBI Director Kash Patel maintained his past guidance, directing employees not to respond, &ldquo;until further notice.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department alerted its employees over the weekend that department leadership would handle the request on their behalf, while the Federal Bureau of Prisons told its staff that any &ldquo;disclosure&rdquo; of &ldquo;duties may compromise institution security and operations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Musk himself offered some guidance over the weekend, reiterating OPM&rsquo;s instructions that workers not disclose any classified or sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The President has made it clear that this is mandatory for the executive branch,&rdquo; he posted on X, formerly known as Twitter,&nbsp;on Saturday. &ldquo;Anyone working on classified or other sensitive matters is still required to respond if they receive the email, but can simply reply that their work is sensitive.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Despite varying guidance regarding Musk&rsquo;s deadline, the DOGE head and the president have said that the email demands themselves are meant to determine if people on the federal payroll actually exist, suggesting that workers who fail to comply would be &ldquo;on the bubble.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What we are trying to get to the bottom of is, we think there are a number of people on the payroll who are dead, which is probably why they can&rsquo;t respond &mdash; and some people who are not real people,&rdquo; Musk said when asked about the email requests at Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet meeting last Wednesday. &ldquo;If you have a pulse and two neurons, you can reply to an email.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Maybe they&rsquo;re going to be gone, maybe they&rsquo;re not around, maybe they have other jobs, maybe they moved and they&rsquo;re not where they&rsquo;re supposed to be,&rdquo; Trump agreed. &ldquo;A lot of things could have happened.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;five things&rdquo; emails comes as the Trump administration is actively preparing for significant downsizing of the federal workforce.<\/p>\n<p>OPM and the Office of Management and Budget circulated a memo to all federal departments and agencies Wednesday morning setting a two-phased schedule for &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-says-its-a-myth-that-the-president-cant-fire-federal-employees-en-masse\/\" title=\"Ramaswamy debunks the myth that the president can&#039;t mass-fire federal ....\">large-scale reductions<\/a> in force.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The federal government is costly, inefficient, and deeply in debt. At the same time, it is not producing results for the American public. Instead, tax dollars are being siphoned off to fund unproductive and unnecessary programs that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-directs-federal-agencies-to-prepare-for-large-scale-job-cuts\/\" title=\"WH directs ... to prepare for &#039;large-scale&#039; job cuts\">benefit radical interest groups<\/a> while hurting hard-working American citizens,&rdquo; the memo reads, before setting deadlines of March 13 and April 14 for departments to send the White House plans for workforce cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The memo also made specific mention of seven &ldquo;tools&rdquo; department and agency heads should use to develop their plans:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&mdash;&nbsp;Continuing to comply with the hiring freeze outlined in the Jan. 20, 2025, Presidential Memorandum Hiring Freeze<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&mdash;&nbsp;Establishing internal processes that ensure agency leadership has visibility and\/or direct sign-off on all potential job offers and candidates prior to extending offers<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&mdash;&nbsp;Eliminating nonstatutorily mandated functions<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&mdash;&nbsp;Removing underperforming employees or employees engaged in misconduct, and continuing to evaluate probationary employees<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&mdash;&nbsp;Reducing headcount through attrition and allowing term or temporary positions to expire without renewal<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&mdash;&nbsp;Separating reemployed annuitants in areas likely subject to RIFs<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&mdash; Renegotiating provisions of collective bargaining agreements that would inhibit enhanced government efficiency and employee accountability<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3329828\/white-house-insists-musk-not-head-doge-declines-identify-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AMY GLEASON IDENTIFIED AS ACTING DOGE LEADER AFTER WHITE HOUSE INSISTED IT WAS NOT MUSK<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Democrats sought to use the &ldquo;five things&rdquo; emails to tout their own accomplishments in February. The Democratic National Committee released 32 points on social media, in a post that was mocked by even the party&rsquo;s own supporters.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&rsquo;s what Democrats did in February: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tHhyLTkOyN\">pic.twitter.com\/tHhyLTkOyN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDemocrats\/status\/1895590321595011370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2020105\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2020105\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second DOGE email deadline creates confusion for federal workers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2409261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/doge-deadline.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12577,15402,23466,48942,32076],"class_list":["post-2409260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-deadline","tag-doge","tag-federal-workers","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/doge-deadline.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409264,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409260\/revisions\/2409264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2409261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}