From CBS News Headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News.

Good evening, I'm John Dickerson.

I'm Maurice Dubois. This time he means it. Maybe.

Elon Musk says he is giving federal workers another chance to respond to his email demand for a list of five things they accomplished last week or be fired.

He did not set a new deadline.

The White House says a million responses were received by the original deadline last night.

One response we got to see is from Caroline Levitt, the President's Press Secretary.

And Musk faced a revolt today in his Department of Government Efficiency.

21 staffers resigned, saying they would not be part of dismantling critical public services.

Even with that, even with different agencies giving employees different instructions about the Musk demand,

Press Secretary Levitt said Musk, the President and the cabinet, are working as one unified

team.

Nancy, of course, is at the White House for us tonight trying to keep track of all of this.

Nancy.

Maurice, good evening to you.

Even some Republicans are now saying that Musk and Doge should be handing some of these responsibilities

over to the cabinet agencies themselves, that they are in over their heads, because now more

than a million federal employees are confused about what to do next, and this is coming at a time when even the directions from the president himself aren't very clear.

It's somewhat voluntary, but it's also if you don't answer, I guess you get fired.

There were new mixed messages from the White House today with special advisor Elon Musk now threatening termination for federal employees who don't respond to an email asking what they did last week.

The threat comes even after many federal agencies told workers not to respond to the email.

We're being inundated with calls.

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