Departments with sensitive or confidential tasks, such as the FBI or Pentagon, initially told employees to ignore the order from DOGE and OPM.

Elon Musk surely would not hire Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be salespeople at a Tesla showroom. Trump hired them because they were second-rate ideologues ... who put their loyalty to Trump before the Constitution or the truth.

Federal workers received a second round of emails Friday asking them to report their work accomplishments even after a slew of federal agencies pushed back against the White House’s first round of mass emails,

Hegseth ordered all civilian employees at the Pentagon to respond to the “pulse check” email from the OPM after initially telling workers to ignore it.

Hegseth asked civilian DoD employees to reply to a weekend email – the second of its kind – from the Office of Personnel Management.

The scene was familiar to anyone who has watched past presidential Cabinet meetings. Trump sat at the center of the table, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on his right and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on his left.

The scene was familiar to anyone who has watched past presidential Cabinet meetings. Trump sat at the center of the table, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on his right and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on his left.

Hegseth’s directive comes after Pentagon officials instructed DoD employees not to respond to a Feb. 22 “What did you do last week?” email over concerns classified information would be shared.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told civilian employees to comply with a request to provide five bullet points of accomplishments.

In the debut episode of his new podcast, This Is Gavin Newsom, Newsom broke with his own party’s stance on trans rights and suggested that transgender athletes should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports, a spineless move from the Democrat who is likely preparing for a presidential run in 2028.

Secretary Pete Hegseth of the Department of Defense told a CNN reporter that his department focuses on war fighting and training, not "climate change crap."