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Trump Defends Musk's DOGE Email to Federal Employees
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February 24, 2025
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0:16Now PlayingElon Musk’s demand that more than two million federal employees defend their work is facing pushback from other powerful figures in the Trump administration, in a sign that the billionaire’s brash approach to overhauling the government is creating division.
On Saturday evening, federal workers received an email telling them to submit five bullet points accounting for their past week, due Monday at midnight Washington time. Musk had previewed the demand in a post on X, the social-media platform he controls.
Yet it didn’t take long for some of President Donald Trump’s hand-picked top officials to rebuff the effort.
FBI Director Kash Patel, in his first full day on the job, told employees in a memo that he was in charge of reviewing bureau personnel and would coordinate any information needed.
“For now, please pause any responses,” said Patel, who was a stern critic of the agency he now leads and one of Trump’s most ardent defenders.
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