Elon Musk demanded that all federal workers justify their jobs.

That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell.

It's Monday, February 24th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

On Saturday, 2.3 million federal employees began receiving an email with the subject line,

What did you do last week? It came from the Office of Personnel Management. It asked

government workers to describe what they did last week in five bullet points. On his social media

platform X, the president's billionaire advisor, Elon Musk,

said that failure to respond would be considered a resignation, although the actual email didn't say

that. It followed a post from President Donald Trump saying that Musk should, quote,

get more aggressive. Musk's Doge team has been leading massive cuts to government.

But this latest email blitz has been met with confusion and some resistance,

particularly at defense and intelligence agencies.

Several agency leaders told their staff not to reply to the email.

Meanwhile, Trump has continued to rail

against the federal bureaucracy. Here he is speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference

in Maryland on Saturday. Now, we have a very corrupt group of people in this country. We're

finding them out. We're removing all of the unnecessary and competent and corrupt bureaucrats from the federal workforce.

That's what we're doing.

Musk's team has said its cuts to federal grants, contracts, and staffing have saved $55 billion.

But a Washington Post analysis found that number was inflated. You can find a link to that analysis

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