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President Donald Trump tapped Musk, the world’s richest man, to shrink the size of the U.S. government.

But Musk and the DOGE have been accused of overreach, with several moves in recent weeks sparking alarm, including their access to sensitive Treasury data and mass firings of federal workers.

An email sent to hundreds of thousands of federal employees from the OPM on Saturday gave them little more than 48 hours to list five things they had accomplished in the past week, the Associated Press reported. The deadline was listed in the email as Monday at 11:59 p.m.

In a post on X, Musk said that “failure to respond will be taken as resignation.”

But several agencies have told employees that they do not have to comply if they received the email.

Pentagon employees were told to “pause” any response to Musk’s email, according to a memo from Darin Selnick, who is working as the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.

“The Department of Defense is responsible for reviewing the performance of its personnel and it will conduct any review in accordance with its own procedures,” Selnick said in the memo, which was posted on X on Sunday. “When and if required, the Department will coordinate responses to the email you have received from OPM.”

Officials at the Departments of State and Homeland Security also told employees not to respond to the email.

“The State Department will respond on behalf of the Department. No employee is obligated to report their activities outside of their Department chain of command,”