US Health Agency Now Says Employees Have to Respond to DOGE Email

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The email instructed employees to list their recent accomplishments.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) told employees on March 3 that they were required to respond to an email from the Trump administration requesting that they summarize their recent accomplishments, a reversal from the HHSโ€™s earlier position.

The administration sent out a second round of emails on the evening of Feb. 28 in a renewed push by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to assess the performance of government employees and overhaul federal agencies.

The email asked workers to write five bullet points summarizing their accomplishments over the previous week.

Employees at the HHS, which includes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had previously been told that they did not have to respond to DOGEโ€™s emails and that there would be โ€œno impactโ€ to their employment with the agency if they chose not to respond.

However, in the March 3 email, the HHS told employees to respond to DOGEโ€™s email by midnight without revealing sensitive information, including the names of drugs and devices that they are working on.

The departmentโ€™s work includes analyzing applications for vaccines and medicines.

It had previously warned employees that responses to DOGEโ€™s request may โ€œbe read by malign foreign actors.โ€ The department sent two versions of its email on March 3; the second version removed that reference.

The HHS did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.

The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents HHS workers, told members in an email that they must comply with the agencyโ€™s choice to proceed with the โ€œill-advised exercise.โ€ The union was not immediately available for comment.

Employees were told in the HHSโ€™s email to follow supervisor guidance on how to reply in a way that would not identify grants, grantees, contracts, or contractors, nor information that would identify the precise nature of scientific experiments, research, or reviews.

Employees on leave, out of the office because of work schedules, or who have signed a deferred resignation agreement are not required to respond, according to the email. Some 75,000 federal workers accepted buyouts before the deferred resignation program ended.

Multiple other U.S. agencies, including the FBI and the State Department, had also advised employees not to respond immediately to DOGEโ€™s demand.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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