The Department of Health and Human Services message comes amid days of confusion after emails from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and a tweet by Elon Musk.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned employees on Monday that emailed responses to Elon Musk's demand that federal workers justify their employment may be "read by malign foreign actors.

Leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is telling employees not to respond to directions from an Elon Musk-guided email, which asks each worker in the federal government to | Elon Musk is facing a lawsuit from federal workers over a mass email requiring government employees to list productive tasks from the prior week or risk termination.

HHS warned employees that if they respond to Elon Musk's request to list five things they accomplished last week to assume it would be read by malign foreign actors.

The request for employees to outline their job accomplishments has been met with pushback from departments and agencies.

The deadline given to federal employees by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Elon Musk over the weekend is quickly approaching, but widespread confusion remains as agencies tell workers

Trump’s billionaire enforcer told federal workers they needed to justify themselves—or else. Then the administration changed its mind.

One employee from an agency within HHS who asked to remain anonymous described "chaos ... The medical and public health communities blasted the move, which was led by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Eight recent former leaders ...

A rift appeared to open Sunday between some of President Donald Trump’s agency heads and Elon Musk, the billionaire tasked with reforming the federal government, over Musk’s demand that all federal employees state their weekly accomplishments or risk termination.

Elon Musk and DOGE are trying to get their hands on some of the most sensitive information the Internal Revenue Service has to offer: data on every single taxpayer, business, and nonprofit, according to The Washington Post. The request has put IRS officials on high alert.

Footage taken during Donald Trump's first cabinet meeting showed members of Trump's government laughing at the billionaire after he delivered an update on DOGE's progress

The White House said federal agencies have discretion over key policy, as records showed Elon Musk’s team pushing for still more enormous changes.