Feds To Start Getting Weekly Emails Asking What They Did. Bosses Will See If It Fits Trump Goals.

Billionaire Elon Musk speaks at the first Cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump’s second term at the White House on Wednesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Federal workers are slated to receive a second email Saturday asking them for a bullet-point description of what they did in the past week — only this time, a new strategy from the Trump administration means they might have to respond, according to three people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private talks.

The emails are slated to become a weekly requirement, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and a person briefed on the Office of Personnel Management’s decisions. In part, the responses will serve to gauge agencies’ alignment with President Donald Trump’s agenda and executive orders, according to the documents and the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Last weekend, OPM sent a message to government employees from hr@opm.gov, asking for a list of what workers had accomplished the week before. The new message is expected to arrive from addresses associated with chiefs of agency HR departments across the federal government, two of the people said. The documents show, and the person briefed confirmed, that the eventual plan is for agencies to develop Microsoft forms to capture employees’ five-bullet responses, that such replies will be mandatory and that the collected information will go to department heads across the government. Details on employees’ work will not be released externally, according to the person briefed and the documents.

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