A week after the Pentagon ordered employees not to respond to an email that originated from Elon Musk asking them to justify their employment, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a change of course on Sunday.

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.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has directed all department civilian employees to respond to emails from the Office of Personnel Management asking them to list their achievements in the past week.

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

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Sunday he is now directing all department civilian employees to respond to emails from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) asking for a recap of what they did the week prior.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered all civilian employees at the Pentagon to respond to the “pulse check” email from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) after initially telling federal workers to ignore the directive.

The Defense Department initially told employees to "pause any response" to OPM's request for a list of their work accomplishments.

In a video posted to X by the DoD, Hegseth specified that only civilian workers should reply to the email and CC their "immediate supervisors."

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

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth admitted Sunday that he’d fired top military ... the Department will coordinate responses to the email you have received from OPM. For now, please pause any response to the OPM email titled ‘What did you do last ...