Doge Latest: Second Emails And China Tariffs

It came a week after Elon Musk , the billionaire appointed by Trump to downsize the government, engineered a first mass email to the federal government's two million employees, ordering them to justify their work or risk being fired.

The message, sent from the US Office of Personnel Management OPM, the government's HR department, had created confusion among an already anxious workforce, as multiple federal agencies told staff to ignore it.

Friday's email once again asked staff to respond with around five bullet points describing what they accomplished in the past week and added that it would become a weekly task.

The second round of emails started going out late Friday, various American news outlets reported , stating that they had seen copies of the second message.

The email had the subject line, What did you do last week? Part II and went out to workers at various agencies, including the FBI, the Treasury Department, and the Department of Homeland Security.